In this paper, we provide new necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Kähler–Einstein metrics on small deformations of a Fano Kähler–Einstein manifold. We also show that the Weil–Petersson metric can be approximated by the Ricci curvatures of the canonical L^2 metrics on the direct image bundles. In addition, we describe the plurisubharmonicity of the energy functional of harmonic maps on the Kuranishi space of the deformation of compact Kähler–Einstein manifolds of general type.

We consider a characteristic problem of the vacuum Einstein equations with part of the initial data given on a future asymptotically flat null cone, and show that the solution exists uniformly around the null cone for general such initial data. Therefore, the solution contains a piece of the future null infinity. The initial data are not required to be small and the decaying condition is consistent with those in the works of [8] and [11].

Fixing a weakly unobstructed Lagrangian torus in a symplectic manifold X, we define a holomorphic function W known as the Floer potential. We construct a canonical A∞-functor from the Fukaya category of X to the category of matrix factorizations of W. It provides a unified way to construct matrix factorizations from Lagrangian Floer theory. The technique is applied to toric Fano manifolds to transform Lagrangian branes to matrix factorizations. Using the method, we also obtain an explicit expression of the matrix factorization mirror to the real locus of the complex projective space.

We prove that the rotation in time T of a trajectory of a K-Lipschitz vector ¯eld in Rn around a given point (stationary or non-stationary) is bounded by A + BKT with A;B absolute constants. In particular, trajectories of a Lipschitz vector ¯eld in ¯nite time cannot have an in¯nite rotation around a given point (while trajectories of a C1 vector ¯eld may have an in¯- nite rotation around a straight line in ¯nite time). The bound above extends to the mutual rotation of two trajectories (for the time intervals T and T0, respectively) of a K-Lipschitz vector ¯eld in R3: this rotation is bounded from above by the quantity CK min(T; T0) + DK2TT0.

H. Hopf showed that the only constant mean curvature sphere S2 immersed in R3 is the round sphere. The K¨ahler framework is an adequate approach to generalize Hopf’ s theorem to higher dimensions. When ϕ : M → Rn is an isometric immersion from a K¨ahler manifold, the complexified second fundamental form α splits according to types. The (1, 1) part of the second fundamental form plays the role of the mean curvature for surfaces and will be called the pluri-mean curvature pmc. Therefore isometric immersions with parallel pluri-mean curvature (ppmc isometric immersions) generalize in a natural way the cmc immersions. It is a standard fact that R8 is the smallest space where CP2 can be embedded. The aim of this work is to generalize Hopf’s theorem proving in particular that the only ppmc isometric immersion from CP2 into R8 is the standard immersion.