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Global Differential Geometry The Mathematical Legacy of Alfred Gray.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fernández, Marisa
Autor Corporativo: International Congress on Differential Geometry (Corporate Author.)
Otros Autores: Wolf, Joseph A.
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Providence : American Mathematical Society, 2001.
Colección:Contemporary Mathematics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Photograph of Alfred Gray Memorial Bronze""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""List of publications of Alfred Gray""; ""List of participants""; ""Invited contributions""; ""On the formality problem for symplectic manifolds""; ""Osculating tubes and self-linking for curves on the three-sphere""; ""Isoparametric functions and harmonic and minimal unit vector fields""; ""The Seiberg-Witten equations and almost-Hermitian geometry""; ""Sculpture inspired by work with Alfred Gray: Kepler elliptic curves and minimal surface sculptures of the planets""
  • ""Mesoscopic curvature and hyperbolicity""""Stable forms and special metrics""; ""A CR-Momentum Ansatz for nilpotent groups""; ""Can tangent sphere bundles over Riemannian manifolds have strictly positive sectional curvature?""; ""Volumes of geodesic balls and spheres associated to a metric connection with torsion""; ""The isoperimetric and Willmore problems""; ""Almost parallel structures""; ""Technical computing with Mathematica""; ""Complex geometry and representations of Lie groups""; ""Â0. Introduction""; ""Part I. Geometry of Flag Manifolds""
  • ""Part II. Representations of Reductive Lie Groups""""Part III. Geometric Realizations of Representations""; ""Communications""; ""On the volume of compact spacelike hypersurfaces with hyperbolic boundary in Minkowski space""; ""Stability of zero mean curvature surfaces in flat Lorentzian 4-manifolds""; ""Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for equivariant bundles on X x P1""; ""Invariant nearly KÃ?hler f-structures on homogeneous spaces""; ""An extension of A. Gray's investigations on small geodesic balls""; ""An energy minimizing family of unit vector fields on odd-dimensional spheres""
  • ""Is it admissible to linearize the Einstein equation in the presence of matter?""""Solutions of some conformally invariant equations of the first order""; ""On biharmonic maps""; ""Characterizations of Pfaffian systems. Consequences in dimension five""; ""On a new class of contact Riemannian manifolds""; ""Description of (1, 2)-symplectic metrics on flag manifolds""; ""Complex surfaces with Betti numbers b1=1, b2 > 0 and finite quotients""; ""Hypercomplex nilpotent Lie groups""; ""C-spaces of Iwasawa type and Damek-Ricci spaces""
  • ""Deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces in half space models""""The geometry of the skew-symmetric curvature operator in the complex setting""; ""Representing minimal curves in C3 by differential operators""; ""Isometric immersions without positive Ricci curvature""; ""Natural Poisson and Jacobi structures on the tangent bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold""; ""On Alfred Gray's elliptical catenoid""; ""Sub-Riemannian geometry and non-holonomic mechanics""; ""Weil algebras of generalized higher order velocities bundles""