Real projective structures on Riemann surfaces and new hyper-Kähler manifolds

Kähler (& Hyper-kähler) Manifolds

These notes are based on two talks given at the Arithmetic & Algebraic Geometry Seminar of the Korteweg-de Vriesinstituut for mathematics of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. They are intended to give a short introduction to the theory of Kähler manifolds, with a slight focus of applicability to the subject of K3 surfaces. However, they also include other interesting results not related to K3 sur...

Riemann Poisson Manifolds and Kähler-riemann Foliations

1 Riemann Poisson manifolds were introduced by the author in [1] and studied in more details in [2]. Kähler-Riemann foliations form an interesting subset of the Riemannian foliations with remarkable properties ( see [3]). In this paper we will show that to give a regular Riemann Poisson structure on a manifold M is equivalent to to give a Kähler-Riemann foliation on M such that the leafwise sym...

Convex Real Projective Structures on Compact Surfaces

The space of inequivalent representations of a compact surface S with χ(S) < 0 as a quotient of a convex domain in RP by a properly discontinuous group of projective transformations is a cell of dimension

Hyper - Kähler Manifolds and Multiply Intersecting Branes

Generalized membrane solutions of D=11 supergravity, for which the transverse space is a toric hyper-Kähler manifold, are shown to have IIB duals representing the intersection of parallel 3-branes with 5-branes whose orientations are determined by their Sl(2; Z) charge vectors. These IIB solutions, which generically preserve 3/16 of the supersymmetry, can be further mapped to solutions of D=11 ...

Projective Structures on a Riemann Surface *