The authors describe the relationships between categories of B-branes in different phases of the non-Abelian gauged linear sigma model. The relationship is described explicitly for the model proposed by Hori and Tong with non-Abelian gauge group that connects two non-birational Calabi-Yau varieties studied by Rødland. A grade restriction rule for this model is derived using the hemisphere partition function and it is used to map B-type D-branes between the two Calabi-Yau varieties.

We investigate the Chern–Ricci flow, an evolution equation of Hermitian metrics generalizing the Kähler–Ricci flow, on elliptic bundles over a Riemann surface of genus greater than one. We show that, starting at any Gauduchon metric, the flow collapses the elliptic fibers and the metrics converge to the pullback of a Kähler–Einstein metric from the base. Some of our estimates are new even for the Kähler–Ricci flow. A consequence of our result is that, on every minimal non-Kähler surface of Kodaira dimension one, the Chern–Ricci flow converges in the sense of Gromov–Hausdorff to an orbifold Kähler–Einstein metric on a Riemann surface.

In this paper, we prove that if a compact Kähler manifold X has a smooth Hermitian metric ω such that (T_X,ω) is uniformly RC-positive, then X is projective and rationally connected. Conversely, we show that, if a projective manifold X is rationally connected, then there exists a uniformly RC-positive complex Finsler metric on T_X .

Let M and N be two compact complex manifolds. We show that if the tautological line bundle O_{T^∗}M(1) is not pseudo-effective and O_{T^∗}N(1) is nef, then there is no non-constant holomorphic map from M to N. In particular, we prove that any holomorphic map from a compact complex manifold M with RC-positive tangent bundle to a compact complex manifold N with nef cotangent bundle must be a constant map. As an application, we obtain that there is no non-constant holomorphic map from a compact Hermitian manifold with positive holomorphic sectional curvature to a Hermitian manifold with non-positive holomorphic bisectional curvature.

Loewner’s equation provides a way to encode a simply connected domain or equivalently its uniformizing conformal map via a real-valued driving function of its boundary. The first main result of the present paper is that the Dirichlet energy of this driving function (also known as the Loewner energy) is equal to the Dirichlet energy of the log-derivative of the (appropriately defined) uniformizing conformal map. This description of the Loewner energy then enables to tie direct links with regularized determinants and Teichmüller theory: We show that for smooth simple loops, the Loewner energy can be expressed in terms of the zeta-regularized determinants of a certain Neumann jump operator. We also show that the family of finite Loewner energy loops coincides with the Weil–Petersson class of quasicircles, and that the Loewner energy equals to a multiple of the universal Liouville action introduced by Takhtajan and Teo, which is a Kähler potential for the Weil–Petersson metric on the Weil–Petersson Teichmüller space.

In this paper, we prove some results on bi-Hölder extensions not only for biholomorphisms but also for more general Kobayashi metric quasi-isometries between the domains. Furthermore, we establish the Gehring–Hayman type theorems on certain complex domains which play an important role through the paper. Then by applying the above results, we show the bi-Hölder equivalence between the Euclidean boundary and the Gromov boundary of bounded convex domains which are Gromov hyperbolic with respect to their Kobayashi metrics.

We show that the angles between Teichmüller geodesic rays issuing from a common point, defined by using the law of cosines, do not always exist. The proof uses an estimation for the Teichmüller distance on finite dimensional Teichmüller spaces. As a consequence, the Teichmüller space equipped with the Teichmüller metric is not a CAT(k) space for any k∈R . We also discuss some necessary conditions for the existence of angle between the Teichmüller geodesics.

We address the question “when the local image of a map is well defined” and answer it in case of holomorphic map germs with target (C^2,0). We prove a criterion for holomorphic map germs (X,x)→(Y,y) to be locally open, solving a conjecture by Huckleberry in all dimensions.

We study singular real analytic Levi-flat subsets invariant by singular holomorphic foliations in complex projective spaces. We give sufficient conditions for a real analytic Levi-flat subset to be the pull-back of a semianalytic Levi-flat hypersurface in a complex projective surface under a rational map or to be the pull-back of a real algebraic curve under a meromorphic function. In particular, we give an application to the case of a singular real analytic Levi-flat hypersurface. Our results improve previous ones due to Lebl and Bretas–Fernández-Pérez–Mol.

Let f be a holomorphic automorphism of a compact Kähler manifold. Assume that f admits a unique maximal dynamic degree d_p with only one eigenvalue of maximal modulus. Let μ be its equilibrium measure. In this paper, we prove that μ is exponentially mixing for all d.s.h. test functions.