ON THE NONNEGATIVITY OF THE DIRICHLET ENERGY OF A WEIGHTED GRAPH

Motivated by considerations of the quadratic orthogonal bisectional curvature, we address the question of when a weighted graph (with possibly negative weights) has nonnegative Dirichlet energy.

Chern Class Inequalities on Polarized Manifolds and Nef Vector Bundles

This article is concerned with Chern class and Chern number inequalities on polarized manifolds and nef vector bundles. For a polarized pair $(M,L)$ with $L$ very ample, our 1st main result is a family of sharp Chern class inequalities. Among them the 1st one is a variant of a classical result and the equality case of the 2nd one is a characterization of hypersurfaces. The 2nd main result is a Chern number inequality on it, which includes a reverse Miyaoka–Yau-type inequality. The 3rd main result is that the Chern numbers of a nef vector bundle over a compact Kähler manifold are bounded below by the Euler number. As an application, we classify compact Kähler manifolds with nonnegative bisectional curvature whose Chern numbers are all positive. A conjecture related to the Euler number of compact Kähler manifolds with nonpositive bisectional curvature is proposed, which can be regarded as a complex analogue to the Hopf conjecture.

Gap theorem on Kähler manifolds with nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature

In this paper we prove a gap theorem for Kähler manifolds with nonnegative orthogonal bisectional curvature and nonnegative Ricci curvature, which generalizes an earlier result of the first author [L. Ni, An optimal gap theorem, Invent. Math. 189 2012, 3, 737–761]. We also prove a Liouville theorem for plurisubharmonic functions on such a manifold, which generalizes a previous result of L.-F. Tam and the first author [L. Ni and L.-F. Tam, Plurisubharmonic functions and the structure of complete Kähler manifolds with nonnegative curvature, J. Differential Geom. 64 2003, 3, 457–524] and complements a recent result of Liu [G. Liu, Three-circle theorem and dimension estimate for holomorphic functions on Kähler manifolds, Duke Math. J. 165 2016, 15, 2899–2919].

On the Sharp Dimension Estimate of CR Holomorphic Functions in Sasakian Manifolds

This is the very 1st paper to focus on the CR analogue of Yau’s uniformization conjecture in a complete noncompact pseudohermitian $(2n+1)$-manifold of vanishing torsion (i.e., Sasakian manifold), which is an odd dimensional counterpart of Kähler geometry. In this paper, we mainly deal with the problem of the sharp dimension estimate of CR holomorphic functions in a complete noncompact pseudohermitian manifold of vanishing torsion with nonnegative pseudohermitian bisectional curvature.

On curvature tensors of Norden and metallic pseudo-Riemannian manifolds

We study some properties of curvature tensors of Norden and, more generally, metallic pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We introduce the notion of J-sectional and J-bisectional curvature of a metallic pseudo-Riemannian manifold (M, J, g) and study their properties.We prove that under certain assumptions, if the manifold is locally metallic, then the Riemann curvature tensor vanishes. Using a Norden structure (J, g) on M, we consider a family of metallic pseudo-Riemannian structures {Ja,b}a,b∈ℝ and show that for a ≠ 0, the J-sectional and J-bisectional curvatures of M coincide with the Ja,b-sectional and Ja,b-bisectional curvatures, respectively. We also give examples of Norden and metallic structures on ℝ2n.