Let $X$ be a compact Riemann surface. Let $(E,\theta )$ be a stable Higgs bundle of degree $0$ on $X$. Let $h_{\det (E)}$ denote a flat metric of the determinant bundle $\det (E)$. For any $t\gt 0$, there exists a unique harmonic metric $h_t$ of $(E,t\theta )$ such that $\det (h_t)=h_{\det (E)}$. We prove that if the Higgs bundle is induced by a line bundle on the normalization of the spectral curve, then the sequence $h_t$ is convergent to the naturally defined decoupled harmonic metric at the speed of the exponential order. We also obtain a uniform convergence for such a family of Higgs bundles.

In this paper, we prove the non-existence of Codazzi and totally umbilical hypersurfaces, especially totally geodesic hypersurfaces, in the $4$-dimensional model space $\mathrm {Sol}_1^4$.

In this paper we discuss three distance functions on the set of convex bodies. In particular we study the convergence of Delzant polytopes, which are fundamental objects in symplectic toric geometry. By using these observations, we derive some convergence theorems for symplectic toric manifolds with respect to the Gromov–Hausdorff distance.

We provide two constructions of Gaussian random holomorphic sections of a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle $(L,h_{L})$ on a Hermitian complex manifold $(X,\Theta )$, that are particularly interesting in the case where the space of $\mathcal {L}^2$-holomorphic sections $H^{0}_{(2)}(X,L)$ is infinite dimensional. We first provide a general construction of Gaussian random holomorphic sections of L, which, if $H^{0}_{(2)}(X,L)$ is infinite dimensional, are almost never $\mathcal {L}^2$-integrable on X. The second construction combines the abstract Wiener space theory with the Berezin–Toeplitz quantization and yields a Gaussian ensemble of random $\mathcal {L}^2$-holomorphic sections. Furthermore, we study their random zeros in the context of semiclassical limits, including their distributions, large deviation estimates, local fluctuations and hole probabilities.

In this article, we study the behavior of complete two-sided hypersurfaces immersed in the hyperbolic space $\mathbb H^{n+1}$. Initially, we introduce the concept of the linearized curvature function $\mathcal {F}_{r,s}$ of a two-sided hypersurface, its associated modified Newton transformation $\mathcal {P}_{r,s}$ and its naturally attached differential operator $\mathcal {L}_{r,s}$. Then, we obtain two formulas for differential operator $\mathcal {L}_{r,s}$ acting on the height function of a two-sided hypersurface and, for the case where their support functions are related by a negative constant, we derive two new formulas for the Newton transformation $P_{r}$ and the modified Newton transformation $\mathcal {P}_{r,s}$ acting on a gradient of the height function. Finally, these formulas, jointly with suitable maximum principles, enable us to establish our rigidity and nonexistence results concerning complete two-sided hypersurfaces in $\mathbb H^{n+1}$.

We prove that the only Bott manifolds such that the Futaki invariant vanishes for any Kähler class are isomorphic to the products of the projective lines.

We prove two sharp anisotropic weighted geometric inequalities that hold for star-shaped and F-mean convex hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$, which involve the anisotropic p-momentum, the anisotropic perimeter, and the volume of the region enclosed by the hypersurface. We also consider their quantitative versions characterized by asymmetry index and the Hausdorff distance between the hypersurface and a rescaled Wulff shape. As a corollary, we obtain the stability of the Weinstock inequality for the first non-zero Steklov eigenvalue for star-shaped and strictly mean convex domains.

We show that March’s criterion for the existence of a bounded nonconstant harmonic function on a weak model (that is, $\mathbb {R}^n$ with a rotationally symmetric metric) is also a necessary and sufficient condition for the solvability of the Dirichlet problem at infinity on a family of metrics that generalise metrics with rotational symmetry on $\mathbb {R}^n$. When the Dirichlet problem at infinity is not solvable, we prove some quantitative estimates on how fast a nonconstant harmonic function must grow.

We prove that if a compact, simply connected Riemannian G-manifold M has orbit space $M/G$ isometric to some other quotient $N/H$ with N having zero topological entropy, then M is rationally elliptic. This result, which generalizes most conditions on rational ellipticity, is a particular case of a more general result involving manifold submetries.

We express the total space of a principal circle bundle over a connected sum of two manifolds in terms of the total spaces of circle bundles over each summand, provided certain conditions hold. We then apply this result to provide sufficient conditions for the existence of free circle and torus actions on connected sums of products of spheres and obtain a topological classification of closed, simply connected manifolds with a free cohomogeneity-four torus action. As a corollary, we obtain infinitely many manifolds with Riemannian metrics of positive Ricci curvature and isometric torus actions.

We prove a synthetic Bonnet–Myers rigidity theorem for globally hyperbolic Lorentzian length spaces with global curvature bounded below by K < 0 and an open distance realizer of length $L=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{|K|}}$: It states that the space necessarily is a warped product with warping function $\cos: (-\frac{\pi}{2},\frac{\pi}{2})\to\mathbb{R}_+$. From this, one also sees that a globally hyperbolic spacetime with curvature bounded above by K < 0 and an open distance realizer of length $L=\frac{\pi}{\sqrt{|K|}}$ is a warped product with warping function cos.

Let $(\tau , V_{\tau })$ be a finite dimensional representation of a maximal compact subgroup K of a connected non-compact semisimple Lie group G, and let $\Gamma $ be a uniform torsion-free lattice in G. We obtain an infinitesimal version of the celebrated Matsushima–Murakami formula, which relates the dimension of the space of automorphic forms associated to $\tau $ and multiplicities of irreducible $\tau ^\vee $-spherical spectra in $L^2(\Gamma \backslash G)$. This result gives a promising tool to study the joint spectra of all central operators on the homogenous bundle associated to the locally symmetric space and hence its infinitesimal $\tau $-isospectrality. Along with this, we prove that the almost equality of $\tau $-spherical spectra of two lattices assures the equality of their $\tau $-spherical spectra.

Quasigeodesic behavior of flow lines is a very useful property in the study of Anosov flows. Not every Anosov flow in dimension three is quasigeodesic. In fact, until recently, up to orbit equivalence, the only previously known examples of quasigeodesic Anosov flows were suspension flows. In a recent article, the second author proved that an Anosov flow on a hyperbolic 3-manifold is quasigeodesic if and only if it is non-$\mathbb {R}$-covered, and this result completes the classification of quasigeodesic Anosov flows on hyperbolic 3-manifolds. In this article, we prove that a new class of examples of Anosov flows are quasigeodesic. These are the first examples of quasigeodesic Anosov flows on 3-manifolds that are neither Seifert, nor solvable, nor hyperbolic. In general, it is very hard to show that a given flow is quasigeodesic and, in this article, we provide a new method to prove that an Anosov flow is quasigeodesic.

In this paper, we prove an optimal isoperimetric inequality for spacelike, compact, star-shaped, and $2$-convex hypersurfaces in de Sitter space.

Following the work of Mazzeo–Swoboda–Weiß–Witt [Duke Math. J. 165 (2016), 2227–2271] and Mochizuki [J. Topol. 9 (2016), 1021–1073], there is a map $\overline{\Xi }$ between the algebraic compactification of the Dolbeault moduli space of ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ Higgs bundles on a smooth projective curve coming from the $\mathbb{C}^\ast$ action and the analytic compactification of Hitchin’s moduli space of solutions to the $\mathsf{SU}(2)$ self-duality equations on a Riemann surface obtained by adding solutions to the decoupled equations, known as ‘limiting configurations’. This map extends the classical Kobayashi–Hitchin correspondence. The main result that this article will show is that $\overline{\Xi }$ fails to be continuous at the boundary over a certain subset of the discriminant locus of the Hitchin fibration.

The fixed points of the generalized Ricci flow are the Bismut Ricci flat (BRF) metrics, i.e., a generalized metric (g, H) on a manifold M, where g is a Riemannian metric and H a closed 3-form, such that H is g-harmonic and $\operatorname{Rc}(g)=\tfrac{1}{4} H_g^2$. Given two standard Einstein homogeneous spaces $G_i/K$, where each Gi is a compact simple Lie group and K is a closed subgroup of them holding some extra assumption, we consider $M=G_1\times G_2/\Delta K$. Recently, Lauret and Will proved the existence of a BRF metric on any of these spaces. We proved that this metric is always asymptotically stable for the generalized Ricci flow on M among a subset of G-invariant metrics and, if $G_1=G_2$, then it is globally stable.

The famous Cheng-Shen’s conjecture in Riemann-Finsler geometry claims that every n-dimensional closed W-quadratic Randers manifold is a Berwald manifold. In this paper, first we study the Riemann and Ricci curvatures of homogeneous Finsler manifolds and obtain some rigidity theorems. Then, by using this investigation, we construct a family of W-quadratic Randers metrics which are not R-quadratic nor strongly Ricci-quadratic.

In the present article, we study compact complex manifolds admitting a Hermitian metric which is strong Kähler with torsion (SKT) and Calabi–Yau with torsion (CYT) and whose Bismut torsion is parallel. We first obtain a characterization of the universal cover of such manifolds as a product of a Kähler Ricci-flat manifold with a Bismut flat one. Then, using a mapping torus construction, we provide non-Bismut flat examples. The existence of generalized Kähler structures is also investigated.

We prove a local gradient estimate for positive eigenfunctions of the $\mathcal {L}$-operator on conformal solitons given by a general conformal vector field. As an application, we obtain a Liouville type theorem for $\mathcal {L} u=0$, which improves the one of Li and Sun [‘Gradient estimate for the positive solutions of $\mathcal Lu = 0$ and $\mathcal Lu ={\partial u}/{\partial t}$ on conformal solitons’, Acta Math. Sin. (Engl. Ser.) 37(11) (2021), 1768–1782]. We also consider applications where manifolds are special conformal solitons and obtain a better Liouville type theorem in the case of self-shrinkers.

We study the topological structure of the space $\mathcal{X}$ of isomorphism classes of metric measure spaces equipped with the box or concentration topologies. We consider the scale-change action of the multiplicative group ${\mathbb{R}}_+$ of positive real numbers on $\mathcal{X}$, which has a one-point metric measure space, say $*$, as only one fixed-point. We prove that the ${\mathbb{R}}_+$-action on $\mathcal{X}_* := \mathcal{X} \setminus \{*\}$ admits the structure of non-trivial and locally trivial principal ${\mathbb{R}}_+$-bundle over the quotient space. Our bundle ${\mathbb{R}}_+ \to \mathcal{X}_* \to \mathcal{X}_*/{\mathbb{R}}_+$ is a curious example of a non-trivial principal fibre bundle with contractible fibre. A similar statement is obtained for the pyramidal compactification of $\mathcal{X}$, where we completely determine the structure of the fixed-point set of the ${\mathbb{R}}_+$-action on the compactification.