In this article we study compact Kähler manifolds satisfying a certain nonnegativity condition on the bisectional curvature. Under this condition, we show that the scalar curvature is nonnegative and that the first Chern class is positive assuming local irreducibility. We also obtain a partial classification of possible de Rham decompositions of the universal cover under this condition.

In this note we introduce a natural Finsler structure on convex surfaces, referred to as the quotient Finsler structure, which is dual in a sense to the inclusion of a convex surface in a normed space as a submanifold. It has an associated quotient girth, which is similar to the notion of girth defined by Schäffer. We prove the analogs of Schäffer’s dual girth conjecture (proved by Álvarez-Paiva) and the Holmes–Thompson dual volumes theorem in the quotient setting. We then show that the quotient Finsler structure admits a natural extension to higher Grassmannians, and prove the corresponding theorems in the general case. We follow Álvarez-Paiva’s approach to the problem, namely, we study the symplectic geometry of the associated co-ball bundles. For the higher Grassmannians, the theory of Hamiltonian actions is applied.

We prove the classical Yano-Obata conjecture by showing that the connected component of the group of $h$-projective transformations of a closed, connected Riemannian Kähler manifold consists of isometries unless the manifold is the complex projective space with the standard Fubini-Study metric (up to a constant).

Sharp reverse affine isoperimetric inequalities for asymmetric Wulff shapes and their polars are established, along with the characterization of all extremals. These new inequalities have as special cases previously obtained simplex inequalities by Ball, Barthe and Lutwak, Yang, and Zhang. In particular, they provide the solution to a problem by Zhang.

We prove a formula which relates Euler characteristic of moduli spaces of stable pairs on local $K3$ surfaces to counting invariants of semistable sheaves on them. Our formula generalizes Kawai- Yoshioka’s formula for stable pairs with irreducible curve classes to arbitrary curve classes. We also propose a conjectural multiple cover formula of sheaf counting invariants which, combined with our main result, leads to an Euler characteristic version of Katz- Klemm-Vafa conjecture for stable pairs.