The Scalar Curvature and the Spectrum of the Laplacian of Spin Manifolds.
We prove Strichartz estimates with fractional loss of derivatives for the Schrödinger equation on any riemannian compact manifold. As a consequence we infer global existence results for the Cauchy problem of nonlinear Schrödinger equations on surfaces in the case of defocusing polynomial nonlinearities, and on three-manifolds in the case of quadratic nonlinearities. We also discuss the optimality of these Strichartz estimates on spheres.
Let be a compact Riemannian manifold of dimension .We suppose that is a metric in the Sobolev space with and there exist a point and such that is smooth in the ball . We define the second Yamabe invariant with singularities as the infimum of the second eigenvalue of the singular Yamabe operator over a generalized class of conformal metrics to and of volume . We show that this operator is attained by a generalized metric, we deduce nodal solutions to a Yamabe type equation with...
In this paper we prove a variety of results about the signature operator on Witt spaces. First, we give a parametrix construction for the signature operator on any compact, oriented, stratified pseudomanifold which satisfies the Witt condition. This construction, which is inductive over the ‘depth’ of the singularity, is then used to show that the signature operator is essentially self-adjoint and has discrete spectrum of finite multiplicity, so that its index—the analytic signature of —is well-defined....
Si determina lo spettro di un operatore di Laplace di una «spherical space form» e si studia l’influenza di tale spettro su .
This review article intends to introduce the reader to non-integrable geometric structures on Riemannian manifolds and invariant metric connections with torsion, and to discuss recent aspects of mathematical physics—in particular superstring theory—where these naturally appear. Connections with skew-symmetric torsion are exhibited as one of the main tools to understand non-integrable geometries. To this aim a a series of key examples is presented and successively dealt with using the notions of...