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Publications and source records attributed to S. Ivanov.
Some results on existence of global Chebyshev coordinates on a Riemannian manifold or, more generally, on Aleksandrov surface are proved. For instance, if the positive and the negative parts of integral curvature of a Riemannian manifold M are less than 2πeach, then there exist global Chebyshev coordinates on M. These conditions are optimal. Such coordinates help to get bi-Lipschitz maps between surfaces.}
We investigate the deformation theory of a class of generalized calibrations in Riemannian manifolds for which the tangent bundle has reduced structure group U(n), SU(n), G_2 and Spin(7). For this we use the property of the associated calibration form to be parallel with respect to a metric connection which may have non-vanishing torsion. In all these cases, we find that if there is a moduli space, then it is finite dimensional. We present various examples of generalized calibrations that include almost hermitian manifolds with structure group U(n) or SU(n), nearly parallel G_2 manifolds and group manifolds. We find that some Hopf fibrations are deformation families of generalized calibrations. In addition, we give sufficient conditions for a hermitian manifold (M,g,J) to admit Chern and Bismut connections with holonomy contained in SU(n). In particular we show that any connected sum of $k \geq 3$ copies of $S^3 \times S^3$ admits a hermitian structure for which the restricted holonomy of a Bismut connection is contained in SU(3).
We give precise conditions under which the real interpolation space [Y_0,X_1]_{s,p} coincides with a closed subspace of the corresponding interpolation space [X_0,X_1]_{s,p} when Y_0 is a closed subspace of X_0 of codimension one. This result is applied to study the basis properties of nonharmonic Fourier series in Sobolev spaces H^s on an interval when 0<s<1. The main result: let E be a family of exponentials exp(i λ_n t) and E forms an unconditional basis in L^2 on an interval. Then there exist two number s_0, s_1 such that E forms an unconditional basis in H^s for s<s_0, E forms an unconditional basis in its span with codimension 1 in H^s for s_1<s. For s in [s_0,s_1] the exponential family is not an unconditional basis in its span.
We give necessary conditions for the existence of perturbative heterotic and common sector type II string warped compactifications preserving four and eight supersymmetries to four spacetime dimensions, respectively. In particular, we find that the only compactifications of heterotic string with the spin connection embedded in the gauge connection and type II strings are those on Calabi-Yau manifolds with constant dilaton. We obtain similar results for compactifications to six and to two dimensions.
We show various vanishing theorems for the cohomology groups of compact hermitian manifolds for which the Bismut connection has (restricted) holonomy contained in SU(n) and classify all such manifolds of dimension four. In this way we provide necessary conditions for the existence of such structures on hermitian manifolds. Then we apply our results to solutions of the string equations and show that such solutions admit various cohomological restrictions like for example that under certain natural assumptions the plurigenera vanish. We also find that under some assumptions the string equations are equivalent to the condition that a certain vector is parallel with respect to the Bismut connection.