The flow of the Berry curvature vector field

The concept of Berry phase and Berry curvature has become ubiquitous in solid state physics as it relates to variety of phenomena, such as topological insulators, polarization, and various Hall effects. It is well known that large Berry curvatures arise from close proximity of hybridizing bands, however, the vectorial nature of the Berry curvature is not utilized in current research. On bulk bcc Fe, we demonstrate the flow of the Berry curvature vector field which features not only monopoles but also higher dimensional structures with its own topological features. They can provide a novel unique view on the electronic structure in all three dimensions. This knowledge is also used to quantify particular contributions to the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in a simple analytical form.

Clairaut Riemannian maps whose total manifolds admit a Ricci soliton

In this paper, we study Clairaut Riemannian maps whose total manifolds admit a Ricci soliton and give a nontrivial example of such Clairaut Riemannian maps. First, we calculate Ricci tensors and scalar curvature of total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps. Then we obtain necessary conditions for the fibers of such Clairaut Riemannian maps to be Einstein and almost Ricci solitons. We also obtain a necessary condition for vector field [Formula: see text] to be conformal, where [Formula: see text] is a geodesic curve on total manifold of Clairaut Riemannian map. Further, we show that if total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps admit a Ricci soliton with the potential mean curvature vector field of [Formula: see text] then the total manifolds of Clairaut Riemannian maps also admit a gradient Ricci soliton and obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for such maps to be harmonic by solving Poisson equation.

Hopf-type theorem for self-shrinkers

In this paper, we prove that a two-dimensional self-shrinker, homeomorphic to the sphere, immersed in the three-dimensional Euclidean space ℝ 3 {{\mathbb{R}}^{3}} is a round sphere, provided its mean curvature and the norm of the its position vector have an upper bound in terms of the norm of its traceless second fundamental form. The example constructed by Drugan justifies that the hypothesis on the second fundamental form is necessary. We can also prove the same kind of rigidity results for surfaces with parallel weighted mean curvature vector in ℝ n {{\mathbb{R}}^{n}} with radial weight. These results are applications of a new generalization of Cauchy’s Theorem in complex analysis which concludes that a complex function is identically zero or its zeroes are isolated if it satisfies some weak holomorphy.

The Flow of the Berry Curvature Vector Field

The concept of Berry phase and Berry curvature has become ubiquitous in solid state physics as it relates to variety of phenomena, such as topological insulators, polarization, and various Hall effects. It is well known that large Berry curvatures arise from close proximity of hybridiz-ing bands, however, the vectorial nature of the Berry curvature is not utilized in current research. On bulk bcc Fe, we demonstrate the flow of the Berry curvature vector field which features not only monopoles but also higher dimensional structures with its own topological features. They can provide a novel unique view on the electronic structure in all three dimensions. This knowledge is also used to quantify particular contributions to the intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in a simple analytical form.

On the Stability Problem of Equilibrium Discrete Planar Curves

We study planar polygonal curves with the variational methods. We show a unified interpretation of discrete curvatures and the Steiner-type formula by extracting the notion of the discrete curvature vector from the first variation of the length functional. Moreover, we determine the equilibrium curves for the length functional under the area-constraint condition and study their stability.

Weakly convex hypersurfaces of pseudo-Euclidean spaces satisfying the condition LkHk+1 = λHk+1

In this paper, we try to give a classification of spacelike hypersurfaces of the Lorentz-Minkowski space-time E1n+1, whose mean curvature vector field of order (k+ 1) is an eigenvector of the kth linearized operator Lk, for a non-negative integer k less than n. The operator Lk is defined as the linear part of the first variation of the (k + 1)th mean curvature of a hypersurface arising from its normal variations. We show that any spacelike hypersurface of E1n+1 satisfying the condition LkHk+1 = λHk+1 (where 0 ≤ k ≤ n − 1) belongs to the class of Lk-biharmonic, Lk-1-type or Lk-null-2-type hypersurface. Furthermore, we study the above condition on a well-known family of spacelike hypersurfaces of Lorentz-Minkowski spaces, named the weakly convex hypersurfaces (i.e. on which all of principle curvatures are nonnegative). We prove that, on any weakly convex spacelike hypersurface satisfying the above condition for an integer k (where, 0 ≤ r ≤ n−1), the (k + 1)th mean curvature will be constant. As an interesting result, any weakly convex spacelike hypersurfaces, having assumed to be Lk-biharmonic, has to be k-maximal.

The dimensional reduction of linearized spin-2 theories invariant under transverse diffeomorphisms

Here we perform the Kaluza–Klein dimensional reduction from $$D+1$$ D + 1 to D dimensions of massless Lagrangians described by a symmetric rank-2 tensor and invariant under transverse differmorphisms (TDiff). They include the linearized Einstein–Hilbert theory, linearized unimodular gravity and scalar tensor models. We obtain simple expressions in terms of gauge invariant field combinations and show that unitarity is preserved in all cases. After fixing a gauge, the reduced model becomes a massive scalar tensor theory. We show that the diffeomorphism (Diff) symmetry, instead of TDiff, is a general feature of the massless sector of consistent massive scalar tensor models. We discuss some subtleties when eliminating Stückelberg fields directly at action level as gauge conditions. A non local connection between the massless sector of the scalar tensor theory and the pure tensor TDiff model leads to a parametrization of the non conserved source which naturally separates spin-0 and spin-2 contributions in the pure tensor theory. The case of curved backgrounds is also investigated. If we truncate the non minimal couplings to linear terms in the curvature, vector and scalar constraints require Einstein spaces as in the Diff and WTDiff (Weyl plus Diff) cases. We prove that our linearized massive scalar tensor models admit those curved background extensions.

Prescribed mean curvature equation on torus

Prescribed mean curvature problems on the torus have been considered in one dimension. In this paper, we prove the existence of a graph on the n-dimensional torus 𝕋 n {\mathbb{T}^{n}} , the mean curvature vector of which equals the normal component of a given vector field satisfying suitable conditions for a Sobolev norm, the integrated value, and monotonicity.