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Constructs a closed connected orientable smooth three-manifold that admits a metric without conjugate points but no metric of nonpositive sectional curvature. This answers negatively, already in dimension three, whether the first metric-existence property implies the second.
Proves that every regular point of a noncollapsed space, for K ∈ ℝ and integer n ≥ 2, has an open neighborhood bi-Lipschitz to an open subset of ℝn. Regularity requires all pointed tangents to be Euclidean, the reference measure is exactly , and the chart compares ambient distances with a point-dependent finite constant.
Proves Gigli's conjecture: in every integer dimension n ≥ 2, Alexandrov curvature at least κ is characterized by the full-support condition with reference measure and distributional sectional curvature at least κ in the original global test classes. The RCD condition is unreduced.
Proves the first-singular-time case of tangent-flow uniqueness for smooth compact connected embedded surfaces without boundary in ℝ3. At every singular point, all fixed-center backward tangent flows agree as area measures at every negative time in the original ambient coordinates, without mean-convexity or a prescribed tangent model.
Determines the isoperimetric profile of the unit cubic flat three-torus and classifies every finite-perimeter minimizer: balls, circular tubes around shortest closed geodesics, coordinate slabs, and their complements. The transition volumes are and , with exactly the adjacent two types minimizing at each transition.
Proves that every smooth locally uniformly convex affine-maximal graph of dimension three through nine, complete for its induced Euclidean metric, is an elliptic paraboloid. A smooth entire nonquadratic example in dimension ten makes this range sharp. In dimensions three through nine, the paraboloid classification also holds for connected open locally uniformly convex affine-maximal hypersurfaces complete for the affine Berwald–Blaschke metric.
Disproves Chen's smooth long-time existence conjecture for Calabi flow by constructing a smooth -invariant Kähler metric on whose flow develops a finite-time singularity. The metric lies in the Fubini–Study class, so the failure occurs even in a class containing a constant-scalar-curvature metric.
Proves that a smooth Ricci flow on a closed four-manifold extends past any finite time at which scalar curvature remains uniformly bounded. A higher-dimensional counterexample has bounded scalar curvature but unbounded full curvature at its finite maximal time, disproving the unrestricted scalar-curvature extension conjecture.
Proves the sharp upper bound for nodal length on every fixed smooth closed surface, completing Yau's conjecture there. The upper bound fails for fixed smooth metrics in dimensions three and four, including metrics on S3 arbitrarily close to round. In dimension five, nodal measure can grow faster than for some fixed , ruling out even arbitrarily small power losses.
Proves the Solomon–Yau least-volume conjecture for minimal hypersurfaces of round spheres. For every m ≥ 2, a closed connected minimal immersion into the unit sphere with non-totally-geodesic image has volume at least that of the smallest minimal Clifford product, counting covering multiplicity.
Classifies closed connected Einstein four-manifolds with positive Einstein constant and nonnegative sectional curvature: up to scaling, their universal Riemannian covers are the round S4, Fubini–Study , or a product of equal round two-spheres. A closed simply connected nonnegatively curved four-manifold is diffeomorphic to one of these whenever the scale-invariant L2 norm of its trace-free Ricci curvature lies below a universal positive constant.
Disproves stable-Morse lower bounds for nondegenerate Hamiltonian fixed points: on simply connected closed Kähler manifolds of real dimension 22, the deficit below the stable Morse number is unbounded. A separate Hamiltonian diffeomorphism of the complex quadric threefold has exactly three fixed points, fewer than the four critical points required of every smooth function.
Proves that every stationary integral m-varifold in a Euclidean open set has singular set of Hausdorff dimension at most , a sharp bound in every positive dimension and codimension. On round spheres, the family also proves almost-everywhere regularity: the singular set has zero m-dimensional Hausdorff measure.
Proves that every smooth Riemannian metric on Sn, n ≥ 2, has infinitely many prime closed geodesics with pairwise distinct images. The same conclusion holds on every closed manifold admitting a finite smooth spherical cover and on every closed three-manifold, without orientability or nondegeneracy restrictions.
Proves the metric Blaschke conjecture: every closed connected Riemannian manifold of positive dimension whose injectivity radius equals its diameter is, up to scaling, a standard compact rank-one symmetric space.
Resolves the Siegel–Yao conjecture for arbitrary capacities in every dimension . Finitely many closed symplectic balls of capacities embed disjointly into an open ball of capacity R exactly when and for every distinct pair i, j.
Proves Donaldson's tamed-to-compatible conjecture: every smooth almost complex structure on a closed four-manifold that is tamed by a symplectic form admits a compatible symplectic form. The almost complex structure stays fixed; the form's cohomology class may change.
Proves Donaldson's hypersymplectic deformation conjecture in a cohomology-preserving form. Every positive triple of smooth closed two-forms on a closed connected oriented four-manifold, normalized by , deforms through positive closed triples to a hyperkähler triple while preserving all three cohomology classes. Any positive triple can first be normalized by a constant linear change.
Disproves the unrestricted nearby Lagrangian conjecture. For some sufficiently large even N, constructs a closed exact embedded Lagrangian in that is diffeomorphic to the base but not Hamiltonian isotopic to its zero section.
Proves Katok's entropy rigidity conjecture for closed connected Riemannian manifolds of dimension at least three with strictly negative sectional curvature: normalized Liouville measure maximizes entropy for the geodesic flow if and only if the metric is locally symmetric.
Proves Yau's uniformization conjecture: every complete connected noncompact Kähler manifold with strictly positive holomorphic bisectional curvature is biholomorphic to ℂn.
Proves generalized Cartan–Hadamard isoperimetry in every dimension: in a complete simply connected manifold with sectional curvature at most κ ≤ 0, every finite-volume finite-perimeter set satisfies the sharp comparison with the equal-volume model ball. Bounded positive-volume equality regions for κ = 0 are Euclidean balls. Also proves sharp Euclidean filling bounds for compactly supported integral n-cycles, n ≥ 2, in arbitrary proper CAT spaces.
Every complete connected smooth boundaryless n-manifold, n ≥ 3, satisfying as a quadratic-form inequality admits a continuous map to a simplicial complex of dimension at most whose entire fibers have diameter bounded only by n in the original metric. This strengthens Gromov's width conclusion to spectral scalar curvature. Universal covers of closed positive-scalar-curvature manifolds also have continuous macroscopic dimension at most for every n ≥ 2.
Proves for every closed connected oriented smooth n-manifold, n ≥ 3, and every smooth metric, with depending only on dimension. Here and is real simplicial volume. Also proves rational inessentiality under positive scalar curvature, resolving the Gromov–Lawson conjecture; every nonnegative-scalar-curvature metric on a closed aspherical manifold is flat.
Constructs a smooth positive-definite metric on for which no neighborhood of the origin admits a smooth isometric immersion into ℝ3. This answers the unrestricted smooth local isometric realization problem for surfaces negatively, even after shrinking the neighborhood.
Every closed smooth Riemannian surface admits a smooth isometric immersion into ℝ4, resolving the closed-surface form of the four-dimensional isometric-immersion problem. This includes nonorientable surfaces and metrics of arbitrary Gaussian curvature.
Proves that real ℓ1 has metric Markov cotype two, answering Mendel and Naor's question. Consequently, every Lipschitz map from an arbitrary subset of a real Hilbert space into ℓ1 extends to the whole space with a universal multiplicative loss in its Lipschitz constant, resolving Ball's extension problem for this target.
Constructs a real reflexive Banach space with an asymptotically midpoint uniformly convex norm but no equivalent asymptotically uniformly convex norm, extending Baudier's separation to reflexive spaces. In the same space, depth-k countably branching diamonds require distortion at least , so midpoint uniform convexity does not force uniformly bounded diamond distortion even under reflexivity.
Constructs a countable uniformly discrete metric space whose real Lipschitz-free Banach space has the approximation property but not the bounded approximation property, answering Kalton's question negatively. Finite-rank operators approximate the identity on every compact set, but their norms cannot share a finite bound.
Disproves Pietsch's dimension-free duality conjecture for metric entropy. Origin-symmetric convex bodies violate every proposed choice of universal constants in the conjectured comparison between covering numbers and those of the polar bodies, even when the covering body is a cube.
Resolves Kirk's reflexive-space fixed-point problem: every nonexpansive selfmap of a nonempty closed bounded convex subset of a real reflexive Banach space has a fixed point. The result uses the original norm, without assuming uniform convexity.
Proves that every real Banach space with Markov type p for some p > 1 admits an equivalent uniformly convex norm, answering Naor's renorming question. Together with the known converse, this characterizes superreflexivity by nontrivial Markov type.
Resolves the cotype–cotype conjecture for real Banach spaces with the approximation property. Such a nonzero space is K-convex if and only if both it and its dual have finite Rademacher cotype, with possibly different exponents. Equivalently, these cotype assumptions force nontrivial Rademacher type.
Resolves the complete Crouzeix conjecture: for every bounded operator A on a complex Hilbert space and every finite matrix-valued polynomial P, one has , where is the numerical range. The constant 2 is sharp, independent of the matrix size, and valid in infinite dimensions.
Constructs separable real Banach spaces that are globally bi-Lipschitz equivalent but not linearly isomorphic, resolving the separable Lipschitz-isomorphism problem negatively. Thus even the complete metric structure up to bi-Lipschitz equivalence does not determine a separable Banach space's linear isomorphism class.
Establishes, relative to the consistency of a measurable cardinal, that the separable quotient problem is independent of ZFC. The assertion that every infinite-dimensional Banach space has a separable infinite-dimensional quotient can hold for all real and complex Banach spaces, whereas the continuum hypothesis yields counterexamples over both fields.
Resolves Tingley's problem: every surjective isometry between the unit spheres of nonzero real Banach spaces extends uniquely to a surjective real-linear isometry of the whole spaces. No dimension restriction is imposed, so the metric geometry of the unit sphere determines the Banach space up to linear isometry.
Constructs a finite connected three-dimensional CW complex whose universal cover has no integral homology above degree two and whose third cohomology vanishes for every local coefficient module, but which has no finite two-dimensional homotopy model. This disproves Wall's finite D(2) conjecture; the example has infinite fundamental group.
Constructs closed connected aspherical topological four-manifolds that are homotopy equivalent but not homeomorphic, with a common word-hyperbolic fundamental group. This disproves even the homeomorphism-existence formulation of the Borel conjecture in dimension four.
Refutes the Hahn–Wilson conjecture at chromatic height two. For every sufficiently large prime p, constructs a connective p-complete spectrum of exact fp-type two that cannot be built from completed by finitely many sums, shifts, cones and retracts. The examples nevertheless satisfy the finite and telescopic localization comparisons.