A strong maximum principle for the Paneitz operator and a non-local flow for the $Q$-curvature

Matthew J. Gursky; Andrea Malchiodi

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A new characterization of the sphere in $R^{3}$

Thomas Hasanis (1980)

Annales Polonici Mathematici

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Let M be a closed connected surface in $R^{3}$ with positive Gaussian curvature K and let $K_{I} I$ be the curvature of its second fundamental form. It is shown that M is a sphere if $K_{I} I = c \sqrt H K^{r}$ , for some constants c and r, where H is the mean curvature of M.

Two-dimensional curvature functionals with superquadratic growth

Ernst Kuwert, Tobias Lamm, Yuxiang Li (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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For two-dimensional, immersed closed surfaces $f : Σ \to ℝ^{n}$ , we study the curvature functionals $ℰ^{p} (f)$ and $𝒲^{p} (f)$ with integrands ${(1 + | A |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ and ${(1 + | H |}^{2})^{p / 2}$ , respectively. Here $A$ is the second fundamental form, $H$ is the mean curvature and we assume $p > 2$ . Our main result asserts that $W^{2, p}$ critical points are smooth in both cases. We also prove a compactness theorem for $𝒲^{p}$ -bounded sequences. In the case of $ℰ^{p}$ this is just Langer’s theorem [16], while for $𝒲^{p}$ we have to impose a bound for the Willmore energy strictly below $8 π$ as an additional...

Conformal harmonic forms, Branson–Gover operators and Dirichlet problem at infinity

Erwann Aubry, Colin Guillarmou (2011)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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For odd-dimensional Poincaré–Einstein manifolds $(X^{n + 1}, g)$ , we study the set of harmonic $k$ -forms (for $k < n / 2$ ) which are $C^{m}$ (with $m \in ℕ$ ) on the conformal compactification $\bar{X}$ of $X$ . This set is infinite-dimensional for small $m$ but it becomes finite-dimensional if $m$ is large enough, and in one-to-one correspondence with the direct sum of the relative cohomology $H^{k} (\bar{X}, \partial \bar{X})$ and the kernel of the Branson–Gover [3] differential operators $(L_{k}, G_{k})$ on the conformal infinity $(\partial \bar{X}, [h_{0}])$ . We also relate the set of $C^{n - 2 k + 1} (Λ^{k} (\bar{X}))$ forms in the kernel of $d + δ_{g}$ ...

Mean curvature properties for $p$ -Laplace phase transitions

Berardino Sciunzi, Enrico Valdinoci (2005)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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This paper deals with phase transitions corresponding to an energy which is the sum of a kinetic part of $p$ -Laplacian type and a double well potential $h_{0}$ with suitable growth conditions. We prove that level sets of solutions of $Δ_{p} u = h_{0}^{'} (u)$ possessing a certain decay property satisfy a mean curvature equation in a suitable weak viscosity sense. From this, we show that, if the above level sets approach uniformly a hypersurface, the latter has zero mean curvature.

Singer-Thorpe bases for special Einstein curvature tensors in dimension 4

Zdeněk Dušek (2015)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

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Let $(M, g)$ be a 4-dimensional Einstein Riemannian manifold. At each point $p$ of $M$ , the tangent space admits a so-called Singer-Thorpe basis (ST basis) with respect to the curvature tensor $R$ at $p$ . In this basis, up to standard symmetries and antisymmetries, just $5$ components of the curvature tensor $R$ are nonzero. For the space of constant curvature, the group $O (4)$ acts as a transformation group between ST bases at $T_{p} M$ and for the so-called 2-stein curvature tensors, the group $Sp (1) \subset SO (4)$ acts as a transformation...

On some properties of a Riemannian space $V_{4}$ with constant scalar curvature

W. Slósarska, Z. Żekanowski (1972)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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A geometric problem and the Hopf Lemma. I

Yan Yan Li, Louis Nirenberg (2006)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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A classical result of A. D. Alexandrov states that a connected compact smooth $n$ -dimensional manifold without boundary, embedded in $ℝ^{n + 1}$ , and such that its mean curvature is constant, is a sphere. Here we study the problem of symmetry of $M$ in a hyperplane $X_{n + 1} = const$ in case $M$ satisfies: for any two points $(X^{'}, X_{n + 1})$ , $(X^{'}, {\hat{X}}_{n + 1})$ on $M$ , with $X_{n + 1} > {\hat{X}}_{n + 1}$ , the mean curvature at the first is not greater than that at the second. Symmetry need not always hold, but in this paper, we establish it under some additional condition for $n = 1$ ....

Travelling graphs for the forced mean curvature motion in an arbitrary space dimension

Régis Monneau, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Violaine Roussier-Michon (2013)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We construct travelling wave graphs of the form $z = - c t + φ (x)$ , $φ : x \in ℝ^{N - 1} \mapsto φ (x) \in ℝ$ , $N \geq 2$ , solutions to the $N$ -dimensional forced mean curvature motion $V_{n} = - c_{0} + κ$ ( $c \geq c_{0}$ ) with prescribed asymptotics. For any $1$ -homogeneous function $φ_{\infty}$ , viscosity solution to the eikonal equation $| D φ_{\infty} | = \sqrt{{(c / c_{0})}^{2} - 1}$ , we exhibit a smooth concave solution to the forced mean curvature motion whose asymptotics is driven by $φ_{\infty}$ . We also describe $φ_{\infty}$ in terms of a probability measure on $§^{N - 2}$ .

The Geometry of Differential Harnack Estimates

Sebastian Helmensdorfer, Peter Topping (2011-2012)

Séminaire de théorie spectrale et géométrie

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In this short note, we hope to give a rapid induction for non-experts into the world of Differential Harnack inequalities, which have been so influential in geometric analysis and probability theory over the past few decades. At the coarsest level, these are often mysterious-looking inequalities that hold for ‘positive’ solutions of some parabolic PDE, and can be verified quickly by grinding out a computation and applying a maximum principle. In this note we emphasise the geometry behind...

The resolution of the bounded $L^{2}$ curvature conjecture in general relativity

Sergiu Klainerman, Igor Rodnianski, Jérémie Szeftel (2014-2015)

Séminaire Laurent Schwartz — EDP et applications

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This paper reports on the recent proof of the bounded $L^{2}$ curvature conjecture. More precisely we show that the time of existence of a classical solution to the Einstein-vacuum equations depends only on the $L^{2}$ -norm of the curvature and a lower bound of the volume radius of the corresponding initial data set.

Hypersurfaces with free boundary and large constant mean curvature: concentration along submanifolds

Mouhamed Moustapha Fall, Fethi Mahmoudi (2008)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

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Given a domain $Ω$ of $ℝ^{m + 1}$ and a $k$ -dimensional non-degenerate minimal submanifold $K$ of $\partial Ω$ with $1 \leq k \leq m - 1$ , we prove the existence of a family of embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in $Ω$ which as their mean curvature tends to infinity concentrate along $K$ and intersecting $\partial Ω$ perpendicularly along their boundaries.

Global pinching theorems for minimal submanifolds in spheres

Kairen Cai (2003)

Colloquium Mathematicae

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Let M be a compact submanifold with parallel mean curvature vector embedded in the unit sphere $S^{n + p} (1)$ . By using the Sobolev inequalities of P. Li to get $L_{p}$ estimates for the norms of certain tensors related to the second fundamental form of M, we prove some rigidity theorems. Denote by H and ${| | σ | |}_{p}$ the mean curvature and the $L_{p}$ norm of the square length of the second fundamental form of M. We show that there is a constant C such that if ${| | σ | |}_{n / 2} < C$ , then M is a minimal submanifold in the sphere $S^{n + p - 1} (1 + H ²)$ with sectional...

On Schrödinger maps from $T^{1}$ to $S^{2}$

Robert L. Jerrard, Didier Smets (2012)

Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure

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We prove an estimate for the difference of two solutions of the Schrödinger map equation for maps from $T^{1}$ to $S^{2} .$ This estimate yields some continuity properties of the flow map for the topology of $L^{2} (T^{1}, S^{2})$ , provided one takes its quotient by the continuous group action of $T^{1}$ given by translations. We also prove that without taking this quotient, for any $t > 0$ the flow map at time $t$ is discontinuous as a map from $𝒞^{\infty} (T^{1}, S^{2})$ , equipped with the weak topology of $H^{1 / 2},$ to the space of distributions ${(𝒞^{\infty} (T^{1}, ℝ^{3}))}^{*} .$ The argument relies...

Regularity of stable solutions of $p$ -Laplace equations through geometric Sobolev type inequalities

Daniele Castorina, Manel Sanchón (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We prove a Sobolev and a Morrey type inequality involving the mean curvature and the tangential gradient with respect to the level sets of the function that appears in the inequalities. Then, as an application, we establish a priori estimates for semistable solutions of $- Δ_{p} u = g (u)$ in a smooth bounded domain $Ω \subset ℝ^{n}$ . In particular, we obtain new $L^{r}$ and $W^{1, r}$ bounds for the extremal solution $u^{☆}$ when the domain is strictly convex. More precisely, we prove that $u^{☆} \in L^{\infty} (Ω)$ if $n \leq p + 2$ and $u^{☆} \in L^{\frac{n p}{n - p - 2}} (Ω) \cap W_{0}^{1, p} (Ω)$ if $n > p + 2$ .

A characterization of n-dimensional hypersurfaces in $R^{n + 1}$ with commuting curvature operators

Yulian T. Tsankov (2005)

Banach Center Publications

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Let Mⁿ be a hypersurface in $R^{n + 1}$ . We prove that two classical Jacobi curvature operators $J_{x}$ and $J_{y}$ commute on Mⁿ, n > 2, for all orthonormal pairs (x,y) and for all points p ∈ M if and only if Mⁿ is a space of constant sectional curvature. Also we consider all hypersurfaces with n ≥ 4 satisfying the commutation relation $(K_{x, y} \circ K_{z, u}) (u) = (K_{z, u} \circ K_{x, y}) (u)$ , where $K_{x, y} (u) = R (x, y, u)$ , for all orthonormal tangent vectors x,y,z,w and for all points p ∈ M.

Structure of second-order symmetric Lorentzian manifolds

Oihane F. Blanco, Miguel Sánchez, José M. Senovilla (2013)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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$𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 - 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑦𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝐿𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑧𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑠$ , that is to say, Lorentzian manifolds with vanishing second derivative $\nabla \nabla R \equiv 0$ of the curvature tensor $R$ , are characterized by several geometric properties, and explicitly presented. Locally, they are a product $M = M_{1} \times M_{2}$ where each factor is uniquely determined as follows: $M_{2}$ is a Riemannian symmetric space and $M_{1}$ is either a constant-curvature Lorentzian space or a definite type of plane wave generalizing the Cahen–Wallach family. In the proper case (i.e., $\nabla R \neq 0$ at some point), the curvature...

Canonical contact forms on spherical CR manifolds

Wei Wang (2003)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We construct the CR invariant canonical contact form $can (J)$ on scalar positive spherical CR manifold $(M, J)$ , which is the CR analogue of canonical metric on locally conformally flat manifold constructed by Habermann and Jost. We also construct another canonical contact form on the Kleinian manifold $Ω (Γ) / Γ$ , where $Γ$ is a convex cocompact subgroup of ${Aut}_{C R} S^{2 n + 1} = P U (n + 1, 1)$ and $Ω (Γ)$ is the discontinuity domain of $Γ$ . This contact form can be used to prove that $Ω (Γ) / Γ$ is scalar positive (respectively, scalar negative, or scalar vanishing)...

Riemannian geometries on spaces of plane curves

Peter W. Michor, David Mumford (2006)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We study some Riemannian metrics on the space of smooth regular curves in the plane, viewed as the orbit space of maps from $S^{1}$ to the plane modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of $S^{1}$ , acting as reparametrizations. In particular we investigate the metric, for a constant $A > 0$ , $G_{c}^{A} (h, k) : = \int_{S^{1}} (1 + A κ_{c} {(θ)}^{2}) 〈 h (θ), k (θ) 〉 | c^{'} (θ) | d θ$ where $κ_{c}$ is the curvature of the curve $c$ and $h$ , $k$ are normal vector fields to $c$ . The term $A κ^{2}$ is a sort of geometric Tikhonov regularization because, for $A = 0$ , the geodesic distance between any two distinct curves is 0, while...

Approximately Einstein ACH metrics, volume renormalization, and an invariant for contact manifolds

Neil Seshadri (2009)

Bulletin de la Société Mathématique de France

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To any smooth compact manifold $M$ endowed with a contact structure $H$ and partially integrable almost CR structure $J$ , we prove the existence and uniqueness, modulo high-order error terms and diffeomorphism action, of an approximately Einstein ACH (asymptotically complex hyperbolic) metric $g$ on $M \times (- 1, 0)$ . We consider the asymptotic expansion, in powers of a special defining function, of the volume of $M \times (- 1, 0)$ with respect to $g$ and prove that the log term coefficient is independent of $J$ (and any choice...

On Kakeya–Nikodym averages, $L^{p}$ -norms and lower bounds for nodal sets of eigenfunctions in higher dimensions

Matthew D. Blair, Christopher D. Sogge (2015)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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We extend a result of the second author [27, Theorem 1.1] to dimensions $d \geq 3$ which relates the size of $L^{p}$ -norms of eigenfunctions for $2 < p < 2 (d + 1) / d - 1$ to the amount of $L^{2}$ -mass in shrinking tubes about unit-length geodesics. The proof uses bilinear oscillatory integral estimates of Lee [22] and a variable coefficient variant of an " $ϵ$ removal lemma" of Tao and Vargas [35]. We also use Hörmander’s [20] $L^{2}$ oscillatory integral theorem and the Cartan–Hadamard theorem to show that, under the assumption of nonpositive...

Separation properties for self-conformal sets

Yuan-Ling Ye (2002)

Studia Mathematica

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For a one-to-one self-conformal contractive system ${w_{j}}_{j = 1}^{m}$ on $ℝ^{d}$ with attractor K and conformality dimension α, Peres et al. showed that the open set condition and strong open set condition are both equivalent to $0 < ℋ^{α} (K) < \infty$ . We give a simple proof of this result as well as discuss some further properties related to the separation condition.

The CR Yamabe conjecture the case $n = 1$

Najoua Gamara (2001)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

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Let $(M, θ)$ be a compact CR manifold of dimension $2 n + 1$ with a contact form $θ$ , and $L = (2 + 2 / n) Δ_{b} + R$ its associated CR conformal laplacien. The CR Yamabe conjecture states that there is a contact form $\tilde{θ}$ on $M$ conformal to $θ$ which has a constant Webster curvature. This problem is equivalent to the existence of a function $u$ such that $L u = u^{1 + 2 / n}$ , $u > 0$ on $M$ . D. Jerison and J. M. Lee solved the CR Yamabe problem in the case where $n \geq 2$ and $(M, θ)$ is not locally CR equivalent to the sphere $S^{2 n + 1}$ of $𝐂^{n}$ . In a join work with R. Yacoub, the CR Yamabe...

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