Geodesic completeness for some meromorphic metrics

This thesis is concerned with extending the idea of geodesic completeness from pseudo-Riemannian to complex geometry: we take, however a completely holomorphicpoint of view; that is to say, a 'metric' will be a (meromorphic) symmetric section of the twice covariant holomorphic tensor bundle. We shall hint at the need of reformulating some aspects of the theory of differential equations in the complex domain, originating in the interpenetration betwixt differential and algebra...

We propose to apply the idea of analytical continuation in the complex domain to the problem of geodesic completeness. We shall analyse rather in detail the cases of analytical warped products of real lines, these ones in parallel with their complex counterparts, and of Clifton-Pohl torus, to show that our definition sheds a bit of new light on the behaviour of 'singularities' of geodesics in space-time. We also show that some geodesics, which 'end' at finite time in the clas...

In this paper we study warped-product metrics on manifolds of the form $X \setminus Y$, where $X$ denotes either $\mathbb{H}^n$ or $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^n$, and $Y$ is a totally geodesic submanifold with arbitrary codimension. The main results that we prove are curvature formulas for these metrics on $X \setminus Y$ expressed in spherical coordinates about $Y$. We also discuss past and potential future applications of these formulas.

Let $(M_1,g_1)$ and $(M_2,g_2)$ be two $C^\infty$--differentiable connected, complete Riemannian manifolds, $k:M_1\to\mathbb R$ a $C^\infty$--differentiable function, having $0<k_0<k(x)\leq K_0$, for any $x\in M_1$ and $g:=g_1-kg_2$ the semi Riemannian metric on the product manifold $M:=M_1\times M_2$. We associate to $g$ a suitable family of Riemannian metrics $G_r+g_2$, with $r>-K_0^{-1}$, on $M$ and we call Riemannian geodesics of $g$ the geodesics of $g$ which are geodesi...

We prove a Poincar\'e-Bendixson theorem describing the asymptotic behavior of geodesics for a meromorphic connection on a compact Riemann surface. We shall also briefly discuss the case of non-compact Riemann surfaces, and study in detail the geodesics for a holomorphic connection on a complex torus.

In this paper, we study the dynamics of geodesics of Fuchsian meromorphic connections with real periods, giving a precise characterization of the possible $\omega$-limit sets of simple geodesics in this case. The main tools are the study of the singular flat metric associated to the meromorphic connection, an explicit description of the geodesics nearby a Fuchsian pole with real residue larger than $-1$ and a far-reaching generalization to our case of the classical Teichm\"ul...

In the first part of the paper, comprising section 1 through 6, we introduce a sequence of functions in the tangent bundle TM of any smooth two-dimensional manifold M with smooth Riemannian metric g that correspond to the higher order Schwarzians of the linearized geodesic flow. With these functions and a classical theorem of Loewner on analytic continuation we are able to characterize the existence of the adapted complex structure induced by g on the set T^RM of vectors in T...

In the present paper we prove Liouville-type theorems: non-existence theorems for complete twisted and warped products of Riemannian manifolds which generalize and complement similar results for compact manifolds.

Motivated by the results of B. Berndtsson, in this memoir we use the new estimates developed by W. He to extend a theorem of the second author on the existence of weak $C^{1,1}$ geodesics between two smooth non-degenerate K\"ahler potentials to the case where the metrics on the end points may have singularities on some analytic set and may be positive semi-definite.

Given a closed real analytic Riemannian manifold, we construct and study a one parameter family of adapted complex structures on the manifold of its geodesics.