On Weingarten surfaces
The structure of filtered algebras of Grothendieck's differential operators on a smooth fat point in a curve and graded Poisson algebras of their principal symbols is explicitly determined. A related infinitesimal-birational duality realized by a Springer type resolution of singularities and the Fourier transformation is presented. This algebro-geometrical duality is quantized in appropriate sense and its quantum origin is explained.
Decomposing the space of k-tensors on a manifold M into the components invariant and irreducible under the action of GL(n) (or O(n) when M carries a Riemannian structure) one can define generalized gradients as differential operators obtained from a linear connection ∇ on M by restriction and projection to such components. We study the ellipticity of gradients defined in this way.
We prove unicity of certain minimal submanifolds, for example Clifford annuli in . The idea is to consider the placement of the submanifold with respect to the (singular) foliation of by the Clifford annuli whose boundary are two fixed great circles a distance apart.
By using open book techniques we give an alternative proof of a theorem about the existence of contact structures on five-manifolds due to Geiges. The theorem asserts that simply-connected five-manifolds admit a contact structure in every homotopy class of almost contact structures.