Andrzej Derdzinski
 Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
The Ohio State University
231 W. 18th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
 
USA
 
Office: MW 442 (Math Tower)
Departmental fax: (614) 292-1479
E-mail: andrzej(the at symbol)math.ohio-state.edu
 
 Teaching
 -  Autumn Semester 2025:
Math 2568 (Linear Algebra), two sections
 
Preprints
Publications, 2025 - present
-   On weakly Einstein Kähler
surfaces (with Yunhee Euh, Sinhwi Kim and JeongHyeong Park),
International Journal of
Mathematics (Online Ready 2025), art. 2550057, 23 pp. 
DOI: 10.1142/S0129167X25500570
 -   Affine vector fields on compact
pseudo-Kähler manifolds, 8 pages, to appear
in São Paulo Journal of Mathematical Sciences.
 -   Special Ricci-Hessian equations on
Kähler manifolds (with Paolo Piccione), 
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society (First
published online 2025).
DOI: 10.1017/S1446788725000102
 -   Compact flat manifolds and
reducibility (with Paolo Piccione), in: 
Advances in Submanifold Theory and Related Topics, 
a special volume of Latin American Mathematics Series - UFSCar
subseries in honor of Marcos Dajczer on his 75th birthday, edited by
R. Tojeiro, Springer, Cham, pp. 181-208 (2025).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-00918-0_8
 -   Nijenhuis geometry of parallel
tensors (with Paolo Piccione and Ivo Terek), 21 pages,
Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata,
vol. 204 (2025), no. 4, pp. 1381-1401. 
DOI: 10.1007/s10231-024-01531-2
 -   Harmonic curvature in dimension
four, Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society, vol. 62 (2025), no. 1, pp. 217–252.
DOI: 10.4134/JKMS.j240001
 
Publications, 2020 - 2024
-   Harmonic-curvature warped products over surfaces 
(with Paolo Piccione), 
Communications in
Analysis and Geometry, vol. 32 (2024), no. 9,
pp. 2345-2379. DOI: 10.4310/CAG.241212032559
 -   Compact
locally homogeneous manifolds with parallel Weyl tensor 
(with Ivo Terek), 
Advances in Geometry,
vol. 24 (2024), no. 4, pp. 493–503.
DOI: 10.1515/advgeom-2024-0019
 -   Rank-one ECS manifolds of dilational
type 
(with Ivo Terek), 
Portugaliae Mathematica, 
vol. 81 (2024), no. 1/2,
pp. 69-96. 
DOI: 10.4171/PM/2110
 -   
Killing fields on compact pseudo-Kähler manifolds 
(with Ivo Terek), 
Journal of Geometric Analysis,
vol. 34 (2024), no. 5, art. 144, 7 pp.
DOI: 10.1007/s12220-024-01591-z
 -   New examples of compact Weyl-parallel manifolds 
(with Ivo Terek), 
Monatshefte für
Mathematik, vol. 203 (2024), no. 4,
pp. 859-871. 
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-023-01908-0
 -   The metric
structure of compact rank-one ECS manifolds 
(with Ivo Terek), 
Annals of Global Analysis
and Geometry, vol. 64 (2023), no. 4, art. 24,
17 pp. 
DOI: 10.1007/s10455-023-09929-6
 -   Compact Weyl-parallel
manifolds, 
Romanian Journal of Mathematics and
Computer Science, 
vol. 13 (2023), no. 2, pp. 1-5. 
Special
Issue  Proceedings of the International Conference Riemannian
Geometry and Applications - RIGA 2023
 -   The topology of compact rank-one ECS 
manifolds (with Ivo Terek), 
Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society, 
vol. 66 (2023), no. 3, pp. 789-809. 
DOI: 10.1017/S0013091523000408
 -   Null-projectability of Levi-Civita connections 
(with Kirollos Masood), 
Results in Mathematics -
Resultate der Mathematik, vol. 78 (2023), no. 4,
art. 141, 16 pp.
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-023-01911-9 
 -   Subspace foliations 
and collapse of closed flat manifolds (with Renato G. Bettiol, 
Roberto Mossa and Paolo Piccione), 
Mathematische Nachrichten,
vol. 295 (2022), no. 12, pp. 2338-2356. DOI: 10.1002/mana.202000156 
 -   Maximally-warped metrics with harmonic 
curvature (with Paolo Piccione), 
in: Geometry of 
Submanifolds, proceedings of an AMS special session in honor or 
Bang-Yen Chen's 75th birthday, held at the University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, MI, October 20-21, 2018, edited by J. Van der Veken, 
A. Carriazo, I. Dimitrić, Y. M. Oh, 
B. D. Suceavă and L. Vrancken, Contemporary 
Mathematics, vol. 756, American Mathematical Society, 
Providence, RI, 2020, pp. 83-96. 
DOI: 10.1090/conm/756/15198 
 -   Kähler manifolds with 
geodesic holomorphic gradients (with Paolo Piccione),
Revista Matemática Iberoamericana, 
vol. 36 (2020), no. 5, pp. 1489-1526 (online-first 
pdf file from EMS). 
DOI: 10.4171/rmi/1173
 
Publications, 2010 - 2018
-   Teichmüller theory and collapse 
of flat manifolds (with Renato G. Bettiol and Paolo Piccione), 
Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata, 
vol. 197 (2018), no. 4, pp. 1247-1268.
DOI: 10.1007/s10231-017-0723-7
 -   Witold Roter (1932-2015), 
Colloquium Mathematicum, vol. 150 
(2017), no. 1, pp. 1-8. 
DOI: 10.4064/cm7409s-9-2017
 -   O dorobku naukowym Witolda 
Rotera, 
Wiadomości Matematyczne, 
vol. 52 (2016), no. 2, pp. 299-313. 
DOI: 10.14708/wm.v52i2.3299
 -   Indefinite Einstein metrics on simple 
Lie groups (with Światosław R. Gal),  
Indiana University Mathematics Journal, vol. 63 
(2014), no. 1, pp. 165-212. 
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2014.63.5191
 -   Curvature spectra of simple Lie 
groups (with Światosław R. Gal), 
Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität 
Hamburg, vol. 83 (2013), no. 2, pp. 219-230. 
DOI: 10.1007/s12188-013-0085-z
 -   Killing potentials with geodesic 
gradients on Kähler surfaces,  
Indiana University Mathematics Journal, vol. 61 
(2012), no. 4, pp. 1643-1666. 
DOI: 10.1512/iumj.2012.61.4687
 -   Special biconformal changes of 
Kähler surface metrics, 
Monatshefte 
für Mathematik, vol. 167 (2012), no. 3-4, 
pp. 431-448. 
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-011-0345-x
 -   Two-jets of conformal fields 
along their zero sets, 
Central European Journal 
of Mathematics, vol. 10 (2012), no. 5, 
pp. 1698-1709. 
DOI: 10.2478/s11533-012-0049-z
 -   Ricci solitons,
English translation of  Solitony 
Ricciego, Wiadomości Matematyczne, 
vol. 48 (2012), no. 1, pp. 1-32 
(pdf file from PTM).  
URL: https://wydawnictwa.ptm.org.pl/index.php/wiadomosci-matematyczne/article/view/211 
DOI: 10.14708/wm.v48i1.211
 -   Zeros of conformal fields in any metric 
signature, 
Classical and Quantum 
Gravity, vol. 28 (2011), no. 7, 075011, 23 pp.
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/28/7/075011
 -   Noncompactness and maximum mobility of 
type III Ricci-flat self-dual neutral Walker four-manifolds, 
The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 
vol. 62 (2011), no. 2, pp. 363-395. 
DOI: 10.1093/qmath/hap033
 -   Totally real immersions of 
surfaces (with Tadeusz Januszkiewicz), 
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 
vol. 362 (2010), no. 1, pp. 53-115.
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-09-04940-X
 -   Compact pseudo-Riemannian manifolds 
with parallel Weyl tensor (with Witold Roter),  
Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry, vol. 37 
(2010), no. 1, pp. 73-90. 
DOI: 10.1007/s10455-009-9173-9
 
Publications, 2003 - 2009
-   Non-Walker self-dual neutral Einstein 
four-manifolds of Petrov type III, 
Journal of 
Geometric Analysis, vol. 19 (2009), no. 2, 
pp. 301-357. 
DOI: 10.1007/s12220-008-9066-3
 -   The local structure of conformally 
symmetric manifolds (with Witold Roter),  
Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society - Simon Stevin, 
vol. 16 (2009), no. 1, pp. 117-128.
DOI: 10.36045/bbms/1235574196
 -   Connections with skew-symmetric Ricci 
tensor on surfaces, 
Results in Mathematics - 
Resultate der Mathematik, vol. 52 (2008), no. 3-4, 
pp. 223-245. 
DOI: 10.1007/s00025-008-0307-3
 -   On compact manifolds admitting 
indefinite metrics with parallel Weyl tensor (with Witold
Roter), 
Journal of Geometry and Physics, 
vol. 58 (2008), no. 9, pp. 1137-1147. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomphys.2008.03.011
 -   Projectively flat surfaces, null 
parallel distributions, and conformally symmetric manifolds (with 
Witold Roter), 
Tohoku Mathematical Journal, 
vol. 59 (2007), no. 4, pp. 565-602 
(open-access pdf file). 
DOI: 10.2748/tmj/1199649875
 -   Global properties of indefinite 
metrics with parallel Weyl tensor (with Witold Roter),
in:  Pure and Applied 
Differential Geometry - PADGE 2007, edited by F. Dillen and 
I. Van de Woestyne, in the series Berichte aus der 
Mathematik, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, 2007, pp. 63-72.
 -   Special Kähler-Ricci potentials 
on compact Kähler manifolds (with Gideon Maschler), 
Journal für die reine und angewandte 
Mathematik, vol. 593 (2006), pp. 73-116. 
DOI: 10.1515/CRELLE.2006.030
 -   Walkers theorem without 
coordinates (with Witold Roter), 
Journal of 
Mathematical Physics, vol. 47 (2006), no. 6, 062504, 
8 pp. (pdf file from AIP). 
DOI: 10.1063/1.2209167
 -   A Myers-type theorem and compact Ricci 
solitons, 
Proceedings of the American 
Mathematical Society, vol. 134 (2006), no. 12, 
pp. 3645-3648 (open-access pdf file). 
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08422-X
 -   A moduli curve for compact 
conformally-Einstein Kähler manifolds (with Gideon Maschler), 52 
Compositio 
Mathematica, vol. 141 (2005), no. 4, 
pp. 1029-1080 (open-access pdf file). 
DOI: 10.1112/S0010437X05001612
 -   Immersions of surfaces in 
spinc-manifolds with a generic positive spinor (with 
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz), 
Annals of Global Analysis and 
Geometry, vol. 26 (2004), no. 2, pp. 175-199 
and no. 3, p. 319. 
DOI: 10.1023/B:AGAG.0000031163.94882.de
 -   Local classification of 
conformally-Einstein Kähler metrics in higher dimensions (with 
Gideon Maschler), 
Proceedings of the London Mathematical 
Society (3), vol. 87 (2003), no. 3, 
pp. 779-819. 
DOI: 10.1112/S0024611503014175
 -   Curvature-homogeneous indefinite 
Einstein metrics in dimension four: the diagonalizable case,
in: 
Recent Advances in Riemannian and Lorentzian Geometries, 
proceedings of an AMS special session held at Baltimore, MD, January 15-18, 
2003, edited by K. L. Duggal and R. Sharma, Contemporary 
Mathematics, vol. 337, American 
Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2003, pp. 21-38 (accessible at 
books.google.com). 
DOI: 10.1090/conm/337/06049
 
Some old papers, notes and preprints accessible on line
-   Self-dual Kähler manifolds and
Einstein manifolds of dimension four, 
Compositio 
Mathematica, vol. 49 (1983), no. 3, pp. 405-433 
(pdf file from NUMDAM).
DOI: https://www.numdam.org/item?id=CM_1983__49_3_405_0
 -   Classification of certain compact 
Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature and non-parallel Ricci 
tensor, 
Mathematische Zeitschrift, vol. 172 
(1980), no. 3, pp. 273-280 
(pdf file from GDZ). 
DOI: 10.1007/BF01215090
 -   Exemples de métriques de Kähler 
et d'Einstein auto-duales sur le plan complexe, 
in: 
Géométrie riemannienne en dimension 4, 
Séminaire Arthur Besse 1978/79, Cedic/Fernand Nathan, Paris, 1981, 
pp. 334-346.
 -   On compact Riemannian manifolds with harmonic 
curvature, 
Mathematische Annalen, 
vol. 259 (1982), no. 2, pp. 145-152 
(pdf file from GDZ). 
DOI: 10.1007/BF01457307
 -   Codazzi tensor fields, curvature and 
Pontryagin forms (with C.-L. Shen), 
Proceedings 
of the London Mathematical Society (3), vol. 47 (1983), 
no. 1, pp. 15-26 (pdf file from LMS). 
DOI: 10.1112/plms/s3-47.1.15
 -   Unflat connections in 3-sphere bundles 
over  S4 (with A. Rigas),
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 
vol. 265 (1981), no. 2, pp. 485-493 
(open-access pdf file). 
DOI: 10.2307/1999745
 -   On conformally symmetric manifolds with 
metrics of indices 0 and 1 (with W. Roter),
 
Tensor, New Series, vol. 31 (1977), no. 3, 
pp. 255-259.
 -   Compact Riemannian manifolds with harmonic 
curvature and non-parallel Ricci tensor, 
in: Global 
Differential Geometry and Global Analysis, proceedings of the 
colloquium held at the Technical University of Berlin, November 21 - 24, 
1979, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 838 (1981), 
pp. 126-128. 
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0088848
 -   A lower bound for 
 λ1 on manifolds with boundary (with 
C. B. Croke),  
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, vol. 62 (1987), 
no. 1, pp. 106-121 
(pdf file from GDZ). 
DOI: 10.1007/BF02564440
 -   Hermitian Einstein metrics,
in:  Global Riemannian Geometry, edited by T. J. Willmore 
and N. Hitchin, Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, 1984, pp. 105-114.
 -   Some theorems on conformally symmetric 
manifolds (with W. Roter),  
Tensor, New Series, vol. 32 (1978), no. 1, 
pp. 11-23.
 -   A condition for positivity of 
curvature (with L. M. Chaves and A. Rigas), 
Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de 
Matemática, vol. 23 (1992), no. 1-2, 
pp. 153-165. DOI: 
10.1007/BF02584817
 -   Riemannian metrics with harmonic 
curvature on 2-sphere bundles over compact surfaces,
Bulletin de la Société mathématique de 
France, vol. 116 (1988), no. 2, pp. 133-156 
(pdf file from NUMDAM).
 -   Riemannian manifolds with harmonic 
curvature, 
in: 
Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis 1984, 
proceedings of a conference held in Berlin, June 10 - 14, 1984, 
 Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol. 1156 
(1985), pp. 74-85. 
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0075087
 -    Some remarks on the local structure 
of Codazzi tensors, 
in: Global Differential Geometry 
and Global Analysis, proceedings of the colloquium held at the 
Technical University of Berlin, November 21 - 24, 1979, Lecture Notes 
in Mathematics, vol. 838 (1981), pp. 251-255. 
  DOI: 10.1007/BFb0088867
 -    Vorlesung
Differentialgeometrie, Bonn, 1983-1984, lecture notes, 796 pages, plus 
  Aufgabenlisten, 76 pages  
 -    Sobolew-Räume, Bonn,
1983, lecture notes, 142 pages  
 -    An easy construction of new
compact Riemannian manifolds with harmonic curvature, 10 pages, 
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, preprint 1983-21,
Bonn, 1983 (pdf file from MPI)
 
Some other old papers in electronic form
Chapters in books on differential geometry
-    Generalizations of the Einstein
condition, Chapter 16 of the 
Arthur L. Besse book Einstein Manifolds, in the series 
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, 
vol. 10, Springer-Verlag, 1987, pp. 432-455. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74311-8_17
 -    Einstein metrics in dimension
four, Chapter 4 of 
Handbook of Differential Geometry, Vol. I (edited by 
F.J.E. Dillen and L.C.A. Verstraelen), Elsevier Science B.V., 
2000, pp. 419-707. 
DOI: 10.1016/S1874-5741(00)80007-2. Click here for a two-page 
list of corrections.
 
Writings on particle physics
-  Geometry of the Standard Model of Elementary Particles, a book in 
the series Texts and Monographs in Physics, Springer-Verlag, 
1992 (xii + 199 pp., ISBN 3-540-54356-2). 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-50310-8
-   Geometry of elementary particles
 , 
in: Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics, 
vol. 54, 1993 (edited by R. E. Greene and S.-T. Yau), 
Part 2, pp. 157-171 (accessible at 
books.google.com). 
This is a 14-page summary of the book listed above.
DOI: 10.1090/pspum/054.2/1216535
-   Geometry of the Standard Model
 , 
notes of a talk at the  Conference on Geometry in 
Będlewo, Poland, September 2002 (organized by Th. Friedrich, 
B. Hajduk and T. Januszkiewicz), 4 pages.
 
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