We consider the existence of cohomogeneity one solitons for the isometric flow of $G_2$-structures on the following classes of torsion-free $G_2$-manifolds: the Euclidean $R^7$ with its standard $G_2$-structure, metric cylinders over Calabi-Yau 3-folds, metric cones over nearly Kähler 6-manifolds, and the Bryant-Salamon $G_2$-manifolds. In all cases we establish existence of global solutions to the isometric soliton equations, and determine the asymptotic behaviour of the torsion. In particular, existence of shrinking isometric solitons on $R^7$ is proved, giving support to the likely existence of type I singularities for the isometric flow. In each case, the study of the soliton equation reduces to a particular nonlinear ODE with a regular singular point, for which we provide a careful analysis. Finally, to simplify the derivation of the relevant equations in each case, we first establish several useful Riemannian geometric formulas for a general class of cohomogeneity one metrics on total spaces of vector bundles which should have much wider application, as such metrics arise often as explicit examples of special holonomy metrics.
Relatively little is known about the discrete horospheres in hyperbolic groups, even in simple settings. In this paper we work with hyperbolic one-ended right-angled Coxeter groups and describe two graph structures that mimic the intrinsic metric on a classical horosphere: the Rips graph and the divergence graph (the latter due to Cohen, Goodman-Strauss, and Rieck). We develop, analyze, and implement algorithms based on finite-state machines that draw large finite portions of these graphs, and deduce various geometric corollaries about the path metrics induced by these graph structures.
Let $G$ be a compact Lie group. We study a class of Hamiltonian $(G \times S^{1})$-manifolds decorated with a function $s$ with certain equivariance properties, under conditions on the $G$-action which we call of (semi-)linear type. In this context, a close analogue of hyperkähler reduction is defined, and our main result establishes surjectivity of an appropriate analogue of Kirwan's map. As a particular case, our setting includes a class of hyperkähler manifolds with trihamiltonian torus actions, to which our surjectivity result applies.
We determine the Néron-Severi lattices of $K3$ hypersurfaces with large Picard number in toric three-folds derived from Fano polytopes. On each $K3$ surface, we introduce a particular elliptic fibration. In the proof of the main theorem, we show that the Néron-Severi lattice of each $K3$ surface is generated by a general fibre, sections and appropriately selected components of the singular fibres of our elliptic fibration. Our argument gives a certain proof of the Dolgachev conjecture for Fano polytopes, which is a conjecture on mirror symmetry for $K3$ surfaces.
These notes are a companion to the article "Lorentz spacetimes of constant curvature" by Geoffrey Mess, which was first written in 1990 but never published. Mess' paper will appear together with these notes in a forthcoming issue of Geometriae Dedicata.
Median spaces are spaces in which for every three points the three intervals between them intersect at a single point. It is well known that rank-1 affine buildings are median spaces, but by a result of Haettel, higher rank buildings are not even coarse median. We define the notion of ``2-median space'', which roughly says that for every four points the minimal discs filling the four geodesic triangles they span intersect in a point or a geodesic segment. We show that CAT(0) Euclidean polygonal complexes, and in particular rank-2 affine buildings, are 2-median. In the appendix, we recover a special case of a result of Stadler of a Fary-Milnor type theorem and show in elementary tools that a minimal disc filling a geodesic triangle is injective.
We construct complete Calabi-Yau metrics on non-compact manifolds that are smoothings of an initial complete intersection $V_0$ that is a Calabi-Yau cone, extending the work of Székelyhidi (2019). The constructed Calabi-Yau manifold has tangent cone at infinity given by $\mathbb{C} \times V_0$. This construction produces Calabi-Yau metrics with fibers having varying complex structures and possibly isolated singularities.
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