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Metric Foliations and Curvature

In the past three or four decades, there has been increasing realization that metric foliations play a key role in understanding the structure of Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative sectional curvature. In fact, all known such spaces are constructed from only a repr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Gromoll, Detlef (Autor), Walschap, Gerard (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
Colección:Progress in Mathematics, 268
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
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Sumario:In the past three or four decades, there has been increasing realization that metric foliations play a key role in understanding the structure of Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative sectional curvature. In fact, all known such spaces are constructed from only a representative handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text is an attempt to document some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis here is less on the fibration itself and more on how to use it to either construct or understand a metric with curvature of fixed sign on a given space.
Descripción Física:VIII, 176 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783764387150
ISSN:2296-505X ;