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Given a K\"ahler fiber space $p:X\to Y$ whose generic fiber is of general type, we prove that the fiberwise singular K\"ahler-Einstein metric induces a semipositively curved metric on the relative canonical bundle $K_{X/Y}$ of $p$. We also propose a conjectural generalization of this result for relative twisted K\"ahler-Einstein metrics. Then we show that our conjecture holds true if the Lelong numbers of the twisting current are zero. Finally, we explain the relevance of our conjecture for the study of fiber-wise Song-Tian metrics (which represent the analogue of KE metrics for fiber spaces whose generic fiber has positive but not necessarily maximal Kodaira dimension)., Comment: v2: Title changed as the initial text is now split into two separate articles (authored by the same persons). The main results we obtain here are less general than their respective counterparts in the previous version, due to a gap in our arguments

International audience; In this note, we study deformations of discrete and Zariski dense subgroups of SU(2, 1) in quaternionic hyperbolic space. Specifi- cally we consider two examples coming from representations of 3-manifold groups (the figure eight knot and Whitehead links complement) and show opposite behavior: one is not deformable outside U(2,1), while the other has a big space of deformations in Sp(2, 1).

Let $T$ be a compact fibered $3$--manifold, presented as a mapping torus of a compact, orientable surface $S$ with monodromy $\psi$, and let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold. Our main result is that if the induced action $\psi^*$ on $H^1(S,\mathbb{R})$ has no eigenvalues on the unit circle, then there exists a neighborhood $\mathcal U$ of the trivial action in the space of $C^1$ actions of $\pi_1(T)$ on $M$ such that any action in $\mathcal{U}$ is abelian. We will prove that the same result holds in the generality of an infinite cyclic extension of an arbitrary finitely generated group $H$, provided that the conjugation action of the cyclic group on $H^1(H,\mathbb{R})\neq 0$ has no eigenvalues of modulus one. We thus generalize a result of A. McCarthy, which addressed the case of abelian--by--cyclic groups acting on compact manifolds., Comment: 11 pages; final version to appear in Algebraic & Geometric Topology

Let $X$ be a non-singular compact Kähler manifold, endowed with an effective divisor $D=\sum{(1-\beta_k) Y_k}$ having simple normal crossing support, and satisfying $\beta_k \in (0, 1)$. The natural objects one has to consider in order to explore the differential-geometric properties of the pair $(X,D)$ are the so-called metrics with conic singularities. In this article, we complete our earlier work concerning the Monge-Ampère equations on $(X,D)$ by establishing Laplacian and $\mathscr{C}^{2,\alpha,\beta}$ estimates for the solution of these equations regardless of the size of the coefficients $0 \lt \beta_k \lt 1$. In particular, we obtain a general theorem concerning the existence and regularity of Kähler–Einstein metrics with conic singularities along a normal crossing divisor.

International audience; We review some basic concepts related to convex real projective structures from the differential geometry point of view. We start by recalling a Riemannian metric which originates in the study of affine spheres using the Blaschke connection (work of Calabi and of Cheng-Yau) mentioning its relation with the Hilbert metric. We then survey some of the deformation theory of convex real projective structures on surfaces. We describe in particular how the set of (Hilbert) lengths of simple closed curves is used in a parametrization of the deformation space in analogy with the classical Fenchel-Nielsen parameters of Teichmüller space (work of Goldman). We then mention parameters of this deformation space that arise in the work of Hitchin on the character variety of representations of the fundamental group of the surface in $\mathrm{SL}(3,\mathbb{R})$. In this character variety, the component of the character variety that corresponds to projective structures is identified with the vector space of pairs of holomorphic quadratic and cubic differentials over a fixed Riemann surface. Labourie and Loftin (independently) obtained parameter spaces that use the cubic differentials and affine spheres. We then display some similarities and differences between Hilbert geometry and hyperbolic geometry using geodesic currents and topological entropy. Finally, we discuss geodesic flows associated to Hilbert metrics and compactifications of spaces of convex real projective structures on surfaces. This makes another analogy with works done on the Teichmüller space of the surface.

For a Dirac operator \(D_{\bar{g}}\) over a spin compact Riemannian manifold with boundary \((\bar{X},\bar{g})\), we give a new construction of the Calderon projector on \(\partial\bar{X}\) and of the associated Bergman projector on the space of L2 harmonic spinors on \(\bar{X}\), and we analyze their Schwartz kernels. Our approach is based on the conformal covariance of \(D_{\bar{g}}\) and the scattering theory for the Dirac operator associated with the complete conformal metric \(g=\bar{g}/\rho^{2}\) where ρ is a smooth function on \(\bar{X}\) which equals the distance to the boundary near \(\partial\bar{X}\). We show that \(\frac{1}{2}(\operatorname{Id}+\tilde{S}(0))\) is the orthogonal Calderon projector, where \(\tilde{S}(\lambda)\) is the holomorphic family in {ℜ(λ)≥0} of normalized scattering operators constructed in Guillarmou et al. (Adv. Math., 225(5):2464–2516, 2010), which are classical pseudo-differential of order 2λ. Finally, we construct natural conformally covariant odd powers of the Dirac operator on any compact spin manifold.

We show meromorphic extension and analyze the divisors of a Selberg zeta function of odd type $Z_{\Gamma,\Sigma}^{\rm o}(\lambda)$ associated to the spinor bundle $\Sigma$ on odd dimensional convex co-compact hyperbolic manifolds $X:=\Gamma\backslash\hh^{2n+1}$. We define a natural eta invariant $\eta(D)$ associated to the Dirac operator $D$ on $X$ and prove that $\eta(D)=\frac{1}{\pi i}\log Z_{\Gamma,\Sigma}^{\rm o}(0)$, thus extending Millson's formula to this setting. As a byproduct, we do a full analysis of the spectral and scattering theory of the Dirac operator on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. We also define an eta invariant for the odd signature operator and, under some conditions, we describe it on the Schottky space of 3-dimensional Schottky hyperbolic manifolds and relate it to Zograf factorization formula., Comment: 36 pages