This paper extends our earlier results to higher dimensions using a different approach, based on the rigidity of complex structures on certain domains. We prove a “low energy” result in all dimensions, in the sense that if normalized energy in a large ball is small enough, then the normalized energy in any interior ball must also be small.

From any 4-dimensional oriented handlebody X without 3- and 4-handles and with b2  1, we construct arbitrary many compact Stein 4-manifolds that are mutually homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to each other, so that their topological invariants (their fundamental groups, homology groups, boundary homology groups, and intersection forms) coincide with those of X. We also discuss the induced contact structures on their boundaries. Furthermore, for any smooth 4-manifold pair (Z, Y ) such that the complement Z − int Y is a handlebody without 3- and 4-handles and with b2  1, we construct arbitrary many exotic embeddings of a compact 4-manifold Y 0 into Z, such that Y 0 has the same topological invariants as Y .

We nd a one-parameter family of coordinates f hgh2R which is a deformation of Penner's simplicial coordinate of the decorated Teichmuller space of an ideally triangulated punctured surface (S; T) of negative Euler characteristic. If h > 0, the decorated Teichmuller space in the h coordinate becomes an explicit convex polytope P(T) independent of h, and if h < 0, the decorated Teichmuller space becomes an explicit bounded convex polytope Ph(T) so that Ph(T)  Ph0 (T) if h < h0. As a consequence, Bowditch-Epstein and Penner's cell decomposition of the decorated Teichmuller space is reproduced.

Motivated by the possible characterization of Sasakian manifolds in terms of twistor forms, we give the complete classification of compact Riemannian manifolds carrying a Killing vector field whose covariant derivative (viewed as a 2–form) is a twistor form.

In this paper, we sketch the proof of the extension of the stability theorem of the Minkowski space in General Relativity done explicitly in [6] and [7]. We discuss solutions of the Einstein vacuum (EV) equations (obtained in the author’s Ph.D. thesis ([6]) in 2007). We solve the Cauchy problem for more general, asymptotically flat initial data than in the pioneering work of D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman [21] or than in any other work. Moreover, we describe precisely the asymptotic behavior. Our relaxed assumptions on the initial data yield a spacetime curvature which is not bounded in L1(M). As a major result, we encounter in our work borderline cases, which we discuss in this paper as well. The fact that certain of our estimates are borderline in view of decay indicates that the conditions in our main theorem are sharp in so far as the assumptions on the decay at infinity on the initial data are concerned. Thus, the borderline cases are a consequence of our relaxed assumptions on the data, [6, 7]. They are not present in the other works, as all of them place stronger assumptions on their data. We work with an invariant formulation of the EV equations. Our main proof is based on a bootstrap argument. To close the argument, we have to show that the spacetime curvature and the corresponding geometrical quantities have the required decay. In order to do so, the Einstein equations are decomposed with respect to specific foliations of the spacetime. This result generalizes the work of D. Christodoulou and S. Klainerman [21].