I will talk about the construction of Kahler-Einstein metric under the assumption of negative holomorphic sectional curvature. This is based on the joint work with Yau.
We explore the structure of the singularities of Yang-Mills flow in dimensions n ≥ 4. First we derive a description of the singular set in terms of concentration for a localized entropy quantity, which leads to an estimate of its Hausdorff dimension. We develop a theory of tangent measures for the flow at such singular points, which leads to a stratification of the singular set. By a refined blowup analysis we obtain Yang-Mills connections or solitons as blowup limits at any point in the singular set. This is joint work with Jeffrey Streets
In this talk We discuss the Martin compactification of a special complete noncompact
surface with negative Gaussian curvature which arises in our study of infinitesimal
rigidity of three-dimensional (collapsed) steady gradient Ricci solitons. In
particular, we investigate positive eigenfunctions with eigenvalue one of the
Laplace operator and prove a uniqueness result: such eigenfunctions are unique up to
a positive constant multiple if certain boundary behavior is satisfied. This
uniqueness result was used to prove an infinitesimal rigidity theorem for
deformations of certain three-dimensional collapsed gradient steady Ricci soliton
with a non-trivial Killing vector field. It is a joint work with Huai-Dong Cao.
An oriented hypersurface in a hyperkaehler 4-manifold naturally inherits a coclosed coframing. Bryant showed that, in the real analytic case, any oriented 3-manifold with a coclosed coframing can always be locally “thickened” to a hyperkaehler 4-manifold, in an essentially unique way. This raises the natural question: when can these 3-manifolds with this structure arise as the boundary of a hyperkaehler 4-manifold? In particular, starting from a compact hyperkaehler 4-manifold with boundary, which deformations of the boundary structure can be extended to a hyperkaehler deformation of the interior? I will discuss recent progress on this problem, which is joint work with Joel Fine and Michael Singer.
A Willmore surface in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space is a critical point of the
square norm of the mean curvature of the surface.
The round spheres, the Clifford torus and the minimal surfaces are Willmore. For a
graph to satisfy the Willmore surface equation, its defining function is governed by
a fourth order non-linear elliptic equation. A classical theorem of Bernstein says
that an entire minimal graph must be a plane. We ask what happens to the entire
Willmore graphs. In this talk, I will discuss joint work with Tobias Lamm on the
finite energy case and with Yuxiang Li on the radially symmetric case.
We consider the evolution by mean curvature flow of surface clusters,
where along triple edges three surfaces are allowed to meet under an equal angle
condition. We show that any such smooth flow, which is weakly close to the static
flow consisting of three half-planes meeting along the common boundary, is smoothly
close with estimates. Furthermore, we show how this can be used to prove a smooth
short-time existence result. This is joint work with B. White.
Given a Kahler manifold, the smooth Calabi flow is the parabolic version of the constant scalar curvature equation. Given that this fourth order flow has a very undeveloped regularity and existence theory, J. Streets recast it as a weak gradient flow in the abstract completion of the space of Kahler metrics. In this talk we will show how a better understanding of the abstract completion gives updated information on the large time behavior of the weak Calabi flow, and how this fits into a well known conjectural picture of Donaldson. This is joint work with Robert Berman and Chinh Lu.
We prove that the volume of a free boundary minimal surface
\Sigma^k \subset B^n, where B^n is a geodesic ball in Hyperbolic
space H^n, is bounded from below by the volume of a geodesic k-ball
with the same radius as B^n. More generally, we prove analogous
results for the case where the ambient space is conformally
Euclidean, spherically symmetric, and the conformal factor is
nondecreasing in the radial variable. These results follow work
of Brendle and Fraser-Schoen, who proved analogous results for
surfaces in the unit ball in R^n. This is joint work with Brian Freidin.