For every $N\ge 2$, we prove that the Bergman metric on the regular locus of a finite ball quotient $\mathbb{B}^N/\Gamma$, where $\Gamma\subset \mathrm{U}(N)$ is finite and fixed-point-free, is K\"ahler-Einstein if and only if $\Gamma$ is trivial. Consequently, if $\Omega$ is an $N$-dimensional normal Stein space with isolated singularities and compact, smooth, strongly pseudoconvex boundary admitting a real-algebraic CR realization, then the Bergman metric on $\Omega_{\mathrm{reg}}$ is K\"ahler-Einstein if and only if $\Omega$ is biholomorphic to $\mathbb{B}^N$. This proves an algebraic version of the Cheng-Huang-Xiao conjecture in every complex dimension $N\ge 2$.
Let $n\geq2$ and let $M^n$ be a closed connected smooth manifold. Let $R^\gamma(M)$ be the space of smooth Riemannian metrics $g$ on $M$ for which the generalized conformal Laplace operator $-\gamma\Delta_g+\mathrm{R}_g$ is strictly positive. We prove that if $n=2$ and $\gamma>0$, or if $n\ge3$ and $0<\gamma \leq 4(n-1)/(n-2)$, the inclusion $R^0(M)\hookrightarrow R^\gamma(M)$ is a homotopy equivalence, thus generalizing, to all dimensions and in the maximal range, the results of Botvinnik--Rosenberg and Li--Mantoulidis. Then, we prove that if $n\ge3$ and $\gamma>4(n-1)/(n-2)$, the space $R^\gamma(M)$ is contractible, and hence nonempty. This solves a homotopy-theoretic strengthening of a conjecture of Gromov (Conjecture 3, Section 6.1.2,"Four Lectures on Scalar Curvature") in the maximal possible coefficient range. Concerning Gromov's conjecture we also treat the equivariant case and the case of manifolds with boundary.
G. Antonelli, Georg Frenck, Bernhard Hanke· 0 citations
Let $(L,e^{-\phi})$ be a positive Hermitian holomorphic line bundle over a compact Riemann surface $X$, and let $\omega=i\partial\overline\partial\phi$. We obtain explicit pointwise estimates for the Bergman form of the tensor power $mL$. If $\mathrm{Ric}\omega\leq\omega$ and the shortest nonconstant closed geodesic has length at least $2\pi$, then \[ K_{m\phi}\geq \frac{2m-1}{4\pi}\,\omega, \] with sharpness holding for $(\mathbb P^1,\mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}(2))$. We also obtain a local version, depending on an upper curvature bound and the injectivity radius, which recovers the first two terms of the Bergman expansion when the curvature is constant. Under the two-sided bound $-\omega\leq\mathrm{Ric}\omega\leq\omega$ and the same closed-geodesic hypothesis, we also prove \[ K_{m\phi}\leq \frac{m\omega}{2\pi} \left(1+\frac{54.8\log(2m)}{m-\frac{1}2}\right). \] The lower estimates use the deformation to the tangent space version of the Ohsawa--Takegoshi theorem established by He, Wang, and the author, whereas the upper bound is obtained by observing the submean inequality with quantitative isothermal coordinates that were obtained in recent work by Eilat.
Let $\Sigma$ be a closed oriented surface of genus $>1$ and $M$ a complete hyperbolic 3-manifold with a marking $i:\Sigma\longrightarrow M$. We consider the case that $M$ has no parabolic cusps and at least one of the two ends is simply degenerate. For $\varGamma=\pi_1(\Sigma)$, let $\rho_M:\varGamma\longrightarrow \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$ be the holonomy of $M$ and $\rho:\varGamma\longrightarrow \mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$ any representation in $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$. We will show that, if $\rho$ is discrete and non-faithful, then \[ \|[\mathrm{Vol}(\rho)]-[\mathrm{Vol}(\rho_M)]\|_\infty\geq \boldsymbol{v}_3 \] holds, where $[\mathrm{Vol}(\rho)]$ denotes the bounded fundamental class of $\rho$ in the bounded cohomology $H_b^3(\varGamma,\mathbb{R})$ of $\varGamma$ and $\boldsymbol{v}_3$ is the volume of a regular ideal 3-simplex in $\mathbb{H}^3$. As an application, we present a rigidity theorem for $\rho_M$ in the set of representations $\rho$ of $\varGamma$ in $\mathrm{PSL}_2(\mathbb{C})$ in terms of $[\mathrm{Vol}(\rho)]$. The rigidity theorem implies that $\boldsymbol{v}_3$ is the optimal separating constant.
Let $M_t$ denote the normalized average over the lattice points in the Euclidean ball of radius $t$ in $\mathbb{Z}^d$. We prove that the full maximal operator $f\mapsto\sup_{t\geq0}\lvert M_t f\rvert$ is bounded on $\ell^p(\mathbb{Z}^d)$, for every $1<p\leq\infty$, with a constant independent of the dimension. In particular, this resolves a question of E.M. Stein from the mid 1990s. The principal ingredient in our proof is that, when $t\lesssim d$ with $t$ sufficiently large, the associated multiplier $\mathfrak{m}_{\sqrt{\lfloor t^2\rfloor}}(\xi)$ admits an asymptotic expansion of arbitrary prescribed order, uniform in $\xi$, whose resulting maximal operators can be controlled by the discrete normalized Gaussian maximal function studied by Mirek--Szarek--Wr\'obel \cite{MSW25}.
We prove that for every integer $n\geq 2$ and $8\pi(n-1)<\rho<8\pi n$, the singular Liouville equation $\Delta u+\e^u=\rho\delta_0$ on a rectangular torus $E_{\mathrm{i}b}=\mathbb{C}/(\mathbb Z+\mathrm{i} b\mathbb Z)$ has exactly $n$ solutions, which are all axisymmetric. Together with previous results by Chen-Lin and Lin-Wang, this yields that \begin{itemize} \item $E_{\mathrm{i} b}$ admits no spherical metrics with a conical singularity of angle $2\pi\vartheta$ as long as $\vartheta$ is a positive odd integer. \item For every integer $n\geq 1$, $E_{\mathrm{i} b}$ admits exactly $n$ spherical metrics with a conical singularity of angle $2\pi\vartheta$ for each $\vartheta\in (2n-1, 2n+1)$. \end{itemize} The basic idea is to prove that the linearized equation has only trivial solutions in the space of axisymmetric functions. The previous method of analysing nodal domains via Bol's isoperimetric inequality only works for $\rho\leq 8\pi$. We develop a unified approach for all $\rho\in (0,+\infty)\setminus 8\pi\mathbb{N}_{\geq 1}$ by exploring the deep connection with the monodromy of the classical Lam\'{e} equation.
Let $D\subset\mathbb C^n$, $n\geq 2$, be a bounded pseudoconvex domain with smooth boundary, and let $H^p_\omega(D)$ be the Hardy space defined using a weighted boundary measure $\omega\,d\sigma$, where $\omega$ is bounded above and bounded away from zero. For every $0<p<\infty$, $p\neq2$, we prove that each surjective linear isometry $T$ of $H^p_\omega(D)$ has the rigid form \( Tf=T(1)(f\circ\varphi), \) where $\varphi\in\operatorname{Aut}(D)$. This extends the classical Forelli-type classification beyond highly symmetric or polynomially convex domains to arbitrary smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domains. The principal difficulty is not the construction of a holomorphic symbol, but proving that this symbol takes values in $D$ and is in fact biholomorphic. We overcome this difficulty by combining equimeasurability methods of Rudin and Schneider with boundary uniqueness, holomorphic approximation, plurisubharmonic exhaustion functions, and removable-singularity arguments across analytic sets. We also solve the complementary geometric problem of determining when an automorphism of $D$ gives rise to an isometry. The answer depends decisively on the boundary measure. We construct two natural measures for which every automorphism induces an isometry: one obtained from an invariant defining function when $\operatorname{Aut}(D)$ is compact, and the other given by Fefferman's invariant surface measure. In sharp contrast, we exhibit domains with noncompact automorphism group---including domains biholomorphic to the unit ball---for which the analogous conclusion fails for ordinary Euclidean surface measure. Thus the isometric structure of Hardy spaces detects not only the biholomorphic geometry of the domain, but also the finer interaction between that geometry and the chosen boundary measure.
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