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Calibrated embeddings in the special Lagrangian and coassociative cases
Every closed, oriented, real analytic Riemannian 3-manifold can be
isometrically embedded as a special Lagrangian submanifold of a Calabi-Yau
3-fold, even as the real locus of an antiholomorphic, isometric involution.
Every closed, oriented, real analytic Riemannian 4-manifold whose bundle of
self-dual 2-forms is trivial can be isometrically embedded as a coassociative
submanifold in a G_2-manifold, even as the fixed locus of an anti-G_2
involution.
These results, when coupled with McLean's analysis of the moduli spaces of
such calibrated submanifolds, yield a plentiful supply of examples of compact
calibrated submanifolds with nontrivial deformation spaces.Comment: AMS-TeX v. 2.1, 26 pages, uses amsppt.sty (2.1h), minor typos
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Homologically arc-homogeneous ENRs
We prove that an arc-homogeneous Euclidean neighborhood retract is a homology
manifold.Comment: This is the version published by Geometry & Topology Monographs on 22
April 200
Rigidity and quasi-rigidity of extremal cycles in Hermitian symmetric spaces
I use local differential geometric techniques to prove that the algebraic
cycles in certain extremal homology classes in Hermitian symmetric spaces are
either rigid (i.e., deformable only by ambient motions) or quasi-rigid (roughly
speaking, foliated by rigid subvarieties in a nontrivial way).
These rigidity results have a number of applications: First, they prove that
many subvarieties in Grassmannians and other Hermitian symmetric spaces cannot
be smoothed (i.e., are not homologous to a smooth subvariety). Second, they
provide characterizations of holomorphic bundles over compact Kahler manifolds
that are generated by their global sections but that have certain polynomials
in their Chern classes vanish (for example, c_2 = 0, c_1c_2 - c_3 = 0, c_3 = 0,
etc.).Comment: 113 pages, 6 figures, latex2e with packages hyperref, amsart,
graphicx. For Version 2: Many typos corrected, important references added
(esp. to Maria Walters' thesis), several proofs or statements improved and/or
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Noncontacting method for measuring angular deflection
An apparatus is described for indicating the instantaneous angular deflection of an object about a selected axis without mechanical contact with the object. Light from a light source is transmitted through a flat refractor to a converging lens which focuses the light through another flat refractor onto a differential photocell. The first flat refractor is attached to the object such that when the object is deflected about the selected axis the refractor is also deflected about that axis. The two flat refractors are identical and they are placed an equal distance from the converging lens as are the light source and the photocell. The output of the photocell which is a function of image displacement is fed to a high gain amplifier that drives a galvanometer which rotates the second flat refractor. The second refractor is rotated so that the image displacement is very nearly zero making the galvanometer current a measure of the deflection of the object about the selected axis
Similarity or Difference as a Basis for Justice: Must Animals Be Like Humans to Be Legally Protected from Humans?
Justice may not require that animals be exactly the same as humans or that they have rights exactly coterminous with the rights of humans, but justice would require that animals receive protection in ways that match up with those similarities they share with humans that are characteristics considered essential to the understanding of what it means to be human. Stated generally, the argument is that if animals are similar to humans as to capacities and characteristics of humans that define humans, then animals should receive protections equivalent to the protections of humans because a just society treats like entities alike
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