In this paper we study compact Sasaki manifolds in view of transverse K¨ahler geometry and extend some results in K¨ahler geometry to Sasaki manifolds. In particular we define integral invariants which obstruct the existence of transverse K¨ahler metric with harmonic Chern forms. The integral invariant f1 for the first Chern class case becomes an obstruction to the existence of transverse K¨ahler metric of constant scalar curvature. We prove the existence of transverse K¨ahler-Ricci solitons (or Sasaki-Ricci soliton) on compact toric Sasaki manifolds whose basic first Chern form of the normal bundle of the Reeb foliation is positive and the first Chern class of the contact bundle is trivial. We will further show that if S is a compact toric Sasaki manifold with the above assumption then by deforming the Reeb field we get a Sasaki-Einstein structure on S. As an application we obtain Sasaki-Einstein metrics on the U(1)-bundles associated with the canonical line bundles of toric Fano manifolds, including as a special case an irregular toric Sasaki-Einstein metrics on the unit circle bundle associated with the canonical bundle of the two-point blow-up of the complex projective plane.

We study the moduli stack of degree 0 semistable G-bundles on an irreducible curve E of arithmetic genus 1, where G is a connected reductive group. Our main result describes a partition of this stack indexed by a certain family of connected reductive subgroups H of G (the E-pseudo-Levi subgroups), where each stratum is computed in terms of bundles on H together with the action of the relative Weyl group. We show that this result is equivalent to a Jordan–Chevalley theorem for such bundles equipped with a framingat a fixed basepoint. In the case where E has a single cusp (respectively, node), this gives a new proof of the Jordan–Chevalley theorem for the Lie algebra g (respectively, group G). We also provide a Tannakian description of these moduli stacks and use it to show that if E is an ordinary elliptic curve, the collection of framed unipotent bundles on E is equivariantly isomorphic to the unipotent cone in G. Finally, we classify the E-pseudo-Levi subgroups using the Borel–de Siebenthal algorithm, and compute some explicit examples.

Calculation of band structures of three dimensional photonic crystals amounts to solving large-scale Maxwell eigenvalue problems, which are notoriously challenging due to high multiplicity of zero eigenvalues. In this paper, we try to address this problem in such a broad context that band structures of three dimensional isotropic photonic crystals in all $14$ Bravais lattices can be efficiently computed in a unified framework. In this work, we uncover the delicate machinery behind several key results of our framework and on the basis of this new understanding we drastically simplify the derivations, proofs and arguments. Particular effort is made on reformulating the Bloch condition for all $14$ Bravais lattices in the redefined orthogonal coordinate system, and establishing eigen-decomposition of discrete partial derivative operators by identifying the hierarchical structure of the underlying normal (block) companion matrix, and reducing the eigen-decomposition of the double-curl operator to a simple factorization of a $3$-by-$3$ complex skew-symmetric matrix. With the validity of the novel nullspace free method in the broad context, we perform some calculations on one benchmark system to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of our algorithm to solve Maxwell eigenvalue problems.

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