Jurgen Berndt

Bio: Jurgen Berndt is an academic researcher from King's College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Symmetric space & Submanifold. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 84 publications receiving 2343 citations. Previous affiliations of Jurgen Berndt include University of Cologne & Stanford University.

Compact homogeneous Riemannian manifolds with low coindex of symmetry

Abstract: We develop a general structure theory for compact homogeneous Riemannian manifolds in relation to the co-index of symmetry. We will then use these results to classify irreducible, simply connected, compact homogeneous Riemannian manifolds whose co-index of symmetry is less or equal than three. We will also construct many examples which arise from the theory of polars and centrioles in Riemannian symmetric spaces of compact type.

Geodesics on the unit tangent bundle

Abstract: A geodesic γ on the unit tangent sphere bundle T1M of a Riemannian manifold (M, g), equipped with the Sasaki metric gS, can be considered as a curve x on M together with a unit vector field V along it. We study the curves x. In particular, we investigate for which manifolds (M, g) all these curves have constant first curvature κ1 or have vanishing curvature κi for some i = 1, 2 or 3.

Cohomogeneity one actions on some noncompact symmetric spaces of rank two

Abstract: We classify, up to orbit equivalence, the cohomogeneity one actions on the noncompact Riemannian symmetric spaces of rank two G2ℂ/G2, SL3(ℂ)/SU3 and SO2,n + 20/SO2SOn + 2, n ≥ 1.

Polar actions on the complex hyperbolic plane

Abstract: We classify the polar actions on the complex hyperbolic plane \({\mathbb{C} H^2}\) up to orbit equivalence. Apart from the trivial and transitive polar actions, there are five polar actions of cohomogeneity 1 and four polar actions of cohomogeneity 2.

Polar actions on the complex hyperbolic plane

Abstract: We classify the polar actions on the complex hyperbolic plane up to orbit equivalence. Apart from the trivial and transitive polar actions, there are five polar actions of cohomogeneity one and four polar actions of cohomogeneity two.

Real Hypersurfaces in Complex Space Forms

Abstract: The study of real hypersurfaces in complex projective space CP n and complex hyperbolic space CH n began at approximately the same time as Munzner’s work on isoparametric hypersurfaces in spheres. A key early work was Takagi’s classification [669] in 1973 of homogeneous real hypersurfaces in CP n . These hypersurfaces necessarily have constant principal curvatures, and they serve as model spaces for many subsequent classification theorems. Later Montiel [501] provided a similar list of standard examples in complex hyperbolic space CH n . In this chapter, we describe these examples of Takagi and Montiel in detail, and later we prove many important classification results involving them. We also study Hopf hypersurfaces, focal sets, parallel hypersurfaces and tubes using both standard techniques of submanifold geometry and the method of Jacobi fields.

Ricci soliton homogeneous nilmanifolds

Abstract: We study a notion weakening the Einstein condition on a left invariant Riemannian metric g on a nilpotent Lie groupN. We consider those metrics satisfying Ric $_g=cI+D$ for some $c\in{mathbb R}$ and some derivationD of the Lie algebra ${\mathfrak n}$ ofN, where Ric $_g$ denotes the Ricci operator of $(N,g)$ . This condition is equivalent to the metric g to be a Ricci soliton. We prove that a Ricci soliton left invariant metric on N is unique up to isometry and scaling. The following characterization is also given: (N,g) is a Ricci soliton if and only if (N,g) admits a metric standard solvable extension whose corresponding standard solvmanifold $(S,\tilde{g})$ is Einstein. This gives several families of new examples of Ricci solitons. By a variational approach, we furthermore show that the Ricci soliton homogeneous nilmanifolds (N,g) are precisely the critical points of a natural functional defined on a vector space which contains all the homogeneous nilmanifolds of a given dimension as a real algebraic set.

Harmonic analysis on commutative spaces

Abstract: General theory of topological groups: Basic topological group theory Some examples Integration and convolution Representation theory and compact groups: Basic representation theory Representations of compact groups Compact Lie groups and homogeneous spaces Discrete co-compact subgroups Introduction to commutative spaces: Basic theory of commutative spaces Spherical transforms and Plancherel formulae Special case: Commutative groups Structure and analysis for commutative spaces: Riemannian symmetric spaces Weakly symmetric and reductive commutative spaces Structure of commutative nilmanifolds Analysis on commutative nilmanifolds Classification of commutative spaces Bibliography Subject index Symbol index Table index.

A short survey on biharmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds

Abstract: and the corresponding Euler-Lagrange equation is H = 0, where H is the mean curvature vector field. If φ : (M, g) → (N, h) is a Riemannian immersion, then it is a critical point of the bienergy in C∞(M,N) if and only if it is a minimal immersion [26]. Thus, in order to study minimal immersions one can look at harmonic Riemannian immersions. A natural generalization of harmonic maps and minimal immersions can be given by considering the functionals obtained integrating the square of the norm of the tension field or of the mean curvature vector field, respectively. More precisely: • biharmonic maps are the critical points of the bienergy functional E2 : C∞(M,N) → R, E2(φ) = 12 ∫