We show that there exist non-formal compact oriented manifolds of dimension $n$ and with first Betti number $b_1=b\geq 0$ if and only if $n\geq 3$ and $b\geq 2$, or $n\geq (7-2b)$ and $0\leq b\leq 2$. Moreover, we present explicit examples for each one of these cases.
We discuss the geography problem of closed oriented 4-manifolds that admit a Riemannian metric of positive scalar curvature, and use it to survey mathematical work employed to address Gromov's observation that manifolds with positive scalar curvature tend to be inessential by focusing on the four-dimensional case. We also point out an strengthening of a result of Carr and its extension to the non-orientable realm.
Formality of hypercommutative algebras of Kähler and Calabi-Yau manifolds
Universitat de Barcelona(巴塞罗那大学);Centre de Recerca Matemàtica(数学研究中心);Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Laboratoire Analyse, Géométrie et Applications, CNRS (UMR 7539)(索邦巴黎北大学,分析、几何与应用实验室,法国国家科学研究中心)
For a $2n+1$-dimensional compact Sasakian manifold, if $n\ge 2$, we prove that the analytic germ of the variety of representations of the fundamental group at every semi-simple representation is quadratic. To prove this result, we prove the almost-formality of de Rham complex of a Sasakian manifold with values in a semi-simple flat vector bundle. By the almost-formality, we also prove the vanishing theorem on the cup product of the cohomology of semi-simple flat vector bundles over a compact Sasakian manifold.
Geometrically formal 4-manifolds with nonnegative sectional curvature
一个黎曼流形称为几何形式的,如果任何两个调和形式的楔积又是调和的。本文对具有非负截面曲率的紧致4-流形进行了几何形式的分类。如果截面曲率是严格正的,则该流形必须同胚于S^4或同胚于CP^2。当截面曲率严格为正时,这一结论仍然成立,并且我们将几何形式条件放宽到调和2-形式的长度不太常的要求。特别地,关于S^2 x S^2的霍普夫猜想在这类流形中成立。
We construct a compact manifold with a closed $G_2$ structure not admitting any torsion-free $G_2$ structure, which is non-formal and has first Betti number $b_1=1$. We develop a method of resolution for orbifolds that arise as a quotient $M/Z_2$ with $M$ a closed $G_2$ manifold under the assumption that the singular locus carries a nowhere-vanishing closed 1-form.
We show that the manifold $(\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^2) \operatorname{\#} (\mathbb{S}^2 \times \mathbb{S}^2)$ does not admit a non-constant non-injective uniformly quasiregular self-map. This answers a question of Martin, Mayer, and Peltonen, and provides the first example of a quasiregularly elliptic manifold which is not uniformly quasiregularly elliptic. To obtain the result, we introduce conformally formal manifolds, which are closed smooth $n$-manifolds $M$ admitting a measurable conformal structure $[g]$ for which the $(n/k)$-harmonic $k$-forms of the structure $[g]$ form an algebr…
We define formal exponential maps for any graded manifold as maps from the formal tangent bundle (that we also define) into the graded manifold. We show that each such map uniquely determines and is determined by its associated Grothendieck connection, which is shown to be flat, and to furnish a resolution of the ring of functions. We then show how a recent construction involving the data of a connection on the tangent bundle recovers a large class of formal exponentials in our definition. As an application, we use a formal exponential map to linearise a QP-manifold at a point. This gives the …
This paper is devoted to the study of the relation between `formal exponential maps,' the Atiyah class, and Kapranov $L_\infty[1]$ algebras associated with dg manifolds in the $C^\infty$ context. Given a dg manifold, we prove that a `formal exponential map' exists if and only if the Atiyah class vanishes. Inspired by Kapranov's construction of a homotopy Lie algebra associated with the holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex manifold, we prove that the space of vector fields on a dg manifold admits an $L_\infty[1]$ algebra structure, unique up to isomorphism, whose unary bracket is the Lie der…