Let $T(S)$ be the Teichmuller space over a hyperbolic Riemann surface $S$. A geodesic disk in $T(S)$ is defined the image of an isometric embedding of the Poincar\'e disk into $T(S)$. In this paper, it is shown that for any non-Strebel point $\tau\in T(S)\backslash\{[0]\}$, there are infinitely many geodesic disks containing the straight line $\{[t\mu]:\,t\in (-1/k,1/k)\}$ where $\mu$ is an extremal representative of $\tau$ with $\|\mu\|_\infty=k$. An infinitesimal version is also obtained.

In this paper we prove new embedding results for compactly supported deformations of CR submanifolds of Cn+d: We show that if M is a 2-pseudoconcave CR submanifold of type (n,d) in Cn+d, then any compactly supported CR deformation stays in the space of globally CR embeddable in Cn+d manifolds. This improves an earlier result, where M was assumed to be a quadratic 2-pseudoconcave CR submanifold of Cn+d. We also give examples of weakly 2-pseudoconcave CR manifolds admitting compactly supported CR deformations that are not even locally CR embeddable.

Let$M$be a compact complex manifold. The corresponding Teichmüller space Teich is the space of all complex structures on$M$up to the action of the group $${{\rm Diff}_0(M)}$$ of isotopies. The mapping class group $${\Gamma:={\rm Diff}(M)/{{\rm Diff}_0(M)}}$$ acts on Teich in a natural way. An$ergodic complex structure$is a complex structure with a $${\Gamma}$$ -orbit dense in Teich. Let$M$be a complex torus of complex dimension $${\ge 2}$$ or a hyperkähler manifold with $${b_2 > 3}$$ . We prove that$M$is ergodic, unless$M$has maximal Picard rank (there are countably many such$M$). This is used to show that all hyperkähler manifolds are Kobayashi non-hyperbolic.

We use the known convergence of loop-erased random walk to radial SLE(2) to give a new proof that the scaling limit of loop-erased random walk excursion in the upper half-plane is chordal SLE(2). Our proof relies on a version of Wilson’s algorithm for weighted graphs which is used together with a Beurling-type estimate for random walk excursion. We also establish and use the convergence of the radial SLE path to the chordal SLE path as the bulk point tends to a boundary point. In the final section we sketch how to extend our results to more general simply connected domains.

Let X1 and X2 be two compact connected strongly pseudoconvex embeddable Cauchy-Riemann (CR) manifolds of dimensions 2m − 1 and 2n − 1 in Cm+1 and Cn+1, respectively. We introduce the Thom- Sebastiani sum X = X1⊕X2 which is a new compact connected strongly pseudoconvex embeddable CR manifold of dimension 2m+2n+1 in Cm+n+2. Thus the set of all codimension 3 strongly pseudoconvex compact connected CR manifolds in Cn+1 for all n > 2 forms a semigroup. X is said to be an irreducible element in this semigroup if X cannot be written in the form X1 ⊕X2. It is a natural question to determine when X is an irreducible CR manifold. We use Kohn-Rossi cohomology groups to give a necessary condition of the above question. Explicitly, we show that if X = X1 ⊕ X2, then the Kohn-Rossi cohomology of the X is the product of those Kohn-Rossi cohomology coming from X1 and X2 provided that X2 admits a transversal holomorphic S1-action.