Differential Geometry and Partial Differential Equations

计划中的研究的一个方面是关于表面的最佳形状。如果我们把表面想象成一个在特定频率下自由振动的鼓头，那么，粗略地说，我们的几何形状越复杂，它的基频就越小。这就提出了寻找使其所在区域的基频最大化的几何图形的问题。这个极端问题是一个难题，也是一个经过大量研究的问题。事实证明，产生的几何图形与最小面积的表面(肥皂膜)有关。首席研究员将研究具有边界的曲面的这种极端构型。另一个主要的研究领域涉及广义相对论的爱因斯坦方程。这些方程描述了宇宙中大质量物体的引力场。该理论是纯几何的，是一个具有初值公式的波动理论。提出者正计划研究解的几何形状，以给出引力塌缩发生和黑洞形成的条件。这些问题导致了涉及引力能和时空曲率的重要几何问题。拟议中的研究介于微分几何、广义相对论和偏微分方程式之间。几何学研究的一个主要主题将是谱几何的研究。一个项目的目标是在曲面和某些高维流形上构造度量，这些流形受到面积或边界长度的限制，使第一特征值最大化。这是一个非标准类型的变分问题，因为它涉及到竞争者在无限维空间上的最大化和最小化。首席研究员将研究这种最大化度量的几何形状，以确定具有最大基频的最佳形状。相对论的工作将继续研究Bartnik提出的质量最小化紧致域的扩张和静态真空度规的构造。主要研究人员还打算研究初始数据集的几何性质，以解决它们是否可以包含非紧稳定陷落曲面的问题。主要研究人员打算研究定义爱因斯坦方程可能的初始数据的约束方程的解的模空间的全局性质。本课程将探讨一系列与满足自由边界条件的极小子流形有关的问题，以及与特征值问题的联系。在对Kaehler-Einstein流形的极小Lagrangian和特殊Lagrangian子流形的继续研究中，主要研究者将试图证明一个猜想，即当一个人变形周围的Calabi-Yau结构时，由极小Lagrangian圈生成的Calabi-Yau流形的积分同调子群的不变性。

One aspect of the planned research has to do with optimal shapes of surfaces. If we think of the surface as a drumhead which vibrates freely at certain frequencies, then, roughly speaking, the more complicated a geometry we have the smaller will be its fundamental frequencies. This suggests the problem of looking for geometries which maximize the fundamental frequency for their area. This extremal question is a difficult and much studied problem. It turns out that the geometries which arise are related to surfaces of least area (soap films). The principal investigator will investigate such extremal configurations for surfaces with boundary. The other main area of investigation concerns the Einstein equations of general relativity. These equations describe the gravitational field for massive bodies in the universe. The theory is purely geometric and is a wave theory with an initial value formulation. The proposer is planning to investigate the geometry of solutions to give conditions under which gravitational collapse takes place and black holes are formed. Such questions lead to important geometric questions involving gravitational energy and curvature of spacetime. The proposed research is at the interface between differential geometry, general relativity, and partial differential equations.A main theme of the research in geometry will be the study of spectral geometry. One project aims to construct metrics on surfaces and certain higher dimensional manifolds subject to an area or boundary length constraint which maximize the first eigenvalue. This is a nonstandard type of variational problem since it involves maximizing and minimizing over infinite dimensional spaces of competitors. The principal investigator will study the geometry of such maximizing metrics to determine the optimal shapes with largest fundamental frequency. Work in relativity will continue investigations into the construction proposed by Bartnik of mass minimizing extensions of compact domains and static vacuum metrics. The principal investigator also intends to study geometric properties of initial data sets to address the question of whether they can contain non-compact stable trapped surfaces. The principal investigator intends to investigate global properties of the moduli space of solutions of the constraint equations which define the possible initial data for the Einstein equations. A range of questions will be pursued concerning minimal submanifolds satisfying free boundary conditions and connections to eigenvalue problems. In a continuing study of minimal Lagrangian and special Lagrangian submanifolds of Kaehler-Einstein manifolds the principal investigator will attempt to prove a conjecture concerning the invariance of the subgroup of the integral homology of a Calabi-Yau manifold which is generated by minimal Lagrangian cycles when one deforms the ambient Calabi-Yau structure.