Pincement sur le spectre et le volume en courbure de Ricci positive
Plateau-Stein manifolds
We study/construct (proper and non-proper) Morse functions f on complete Riemannian manifolds X such that the hypersurfaces f(x) = t for all −∞ < t < +∞ have positive mean curvatures at all non-critical points x ∈ X of f. We show, for instance, that if X admits no such (not necessarily proper) function, then it contains a (possibly, singular) complete (possibly, compact) minimal hypersurface of finite volume.
Platonic triangles of groups.
Rationality of geometric signatures of complete 4-manifolds.
Representations of polygons of finite groups.
Resolvent Flows for Convex Functionals and p-Harmonic Maps
We prove the unique existence of the (non-linear) resolvent associated to a coercive proper lower semicontinuous function satisfying a weak notion of p-uniform λ-convexity on a complete metric space, and establish the existence of the minimizer of such functions as the large time limit of the resolvents, which generalizing pioneering work by Jost for convex functionals on complete CAT(0)-spaces. The results can be applied to Lp-Wasserstein space over complete p-uniformly convex spaces. As an application,...
Riemannian Polyhedra and Liouville-Type Theorems for Harmonic Maps
This paper is a study of harmonic maps fromRiemannian polyhedra to locally non-positively curved geodesic spaces in the sense of Alexandrov. We prove Liouville-type theorems for subharmonic functions and harmonic maps under two different assumptions on the source space. First we prove the analogue of the Schoen-Yau Theorem on a complete pseudomanifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature. Then we study 2-parabolic admissible Riemannian polyhedra and prove some vanishing results on them.
Rigidity of minimal volume Alexandrov spaces.
Rigidity of the stable norm on tori.
Scalar curvature of definable Alexandrov spaces.
Sharp isoperimetric inequalities and model spaces for the Curvature-Dimension-Diameter condition
We obtain new sharp isoperimetric inequalities on a Riemannian manifold equipped with a probability measure, whose generalized Ricci curvature is bounded from below (possibly negatively), and generalized dimension and diameter of the convex support are bounded from above (possibly infinitely). Our inequalities are sharp for sets of any given measure and with respect to all parameters (curvature, dimension and diameter). Moreover, for each choice of parameters, we identify the model spaces which...
Simplicial nonpositive curvature
We introduce a family of conditions on a simplicial complex that we call local k-largeness (k≥6 is an integer). They are simply stated, combinatorial and easily checkable. One of our themes is that local 6-largeness is a good analogue of the non-positive curvature: locally 6-large spaces have many properties similar to non-positively curved ones. However, local 6-largeness neither implies nor is implied by non-positive curvature of the standard metric. One can think of these results as a higher...
Some results on curvature and topology of Finsler manifolds
We investigate the curvature and topology of Finsler manifolds, mainly the growth of the fundamental group. By choosing a new counting function for the fundamental group that does not rely on the generators, we are able to discuss the topic in a more general case, namely, we do not demand that the manifold is compact or the fundamental group is finitely generated. Among other things, we prove that the fundamental group of a forward complete and noncompact Finsler n-manifold (M,F) with nonnegative...
Some results on the geometry of convex hulls in manifolds of pinched negative curvature.
Stability problems in a theorem of F. Schur.
Stable norms of non-orientable surfaces
We study the stable norm on the first homology of a closed non-orientable surface equipped with a Riemannian metric. We prove that in every conformal class there exists a metric whose stable norm is polyhedral. Furthermore the stable norm is never strictly convex if the first Betti number of the surface is greater than two.
Structure quasi-conforme et dimension conforme d'après P. Pansu, M. Gromov et M. Bourdon
Suites de flots de Ricci en dimension 3 et applications
Dans cet article, on passe en revue certains résultats dus à Miles Simon sur le flot de Ricci de certains espaces métriques de dimension 3 exposés dans [28] et [26].On commence par voir le lien entre théorèmes de rigidité et convergence des variétés sur un exemple dû à Berger et Durumeric. On remarque ensuite que pour obtenir de tels théorèmes de rigidité en utilisant le flot de Ricci, il faut être capable de construire le flot pour des espaces peu lisses.Les deux dernières partie sont consacrées...
Sur des problèmes de la géométrie systolique
Sur le problème de Bennequin : un contre-exemple (d'après Alexander)