Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds

Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds
Author: Vladimir Rovenski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1997-12-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780817638061

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This monograph is based on the author's results on the Riemannian ge ometry of foliations with nonnegative mixed curvature and on the geometry of sub manifolds with generators (rulings) in a Riemannian space of nonnegative curvature. The main idea is that such foliated (sub) manifolds can be decom posed when the dimension of the leaves (generators) is large. The methods of investigation are mostly synthetic. The work is divided into two parts, consisting of seven chapters and three appendices. Appendix A was written jointly with V. Toponogov. Part 1 is devoted to the Riemannian geometry of foliations. In the first few sections of Chapter I we give a survey of the basic results on foliated smooth manifolds (Sections 1.1-1.3), and finish in Section 1.4 with a discussion of the key problem of this work: the role of Riemannian curvature in the study of foliations on manifolds and submanifolds.

Metric Foliations and Curvature

Metric Foliations and Curvature
Author: Detlef Gromoll
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-08-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9783764398057

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Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text documents some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis 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.

Metric Foliations and Curvature

Metric Foliations and Curvature
Author: Detlef Gromoll
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2009-03-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764387157

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Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text documents some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis 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.

Lectures on Spaces of Nonpositive Curvature

Lectures on Spaces of Nonpositive Curvature
Author: Werner Ballmann
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034892403

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Singular spaces with upper curvature bounds and, in particular, spaces of nonpositive curvature, have been of interest in many fields, including geometric (and combinatorial) group theory, topology, dynamical systems and probability theory. In the first two chapters of the book, a concise introduction into these spaces is given, culminating in the Hadamard-Cartan theorem and the discussion of the ideal boundary at infinity for simply connected complete spaces of nonpositive curvature. In the third chapter, qualitative properties of the geodesic flow on geodesically complete spaces of nonpositive curvature are discussed, as are random walks on groups of isometries of nonpositively curved spaces. The main class of spaces considered should be precisely complementary to symmetric spaces of higher rank and Euclidean buildings of dimension at least two (Rank Rigidity conjecture). In the smooth case, this is known and is the content of the Rank Rigidity theorem. An updated version of the proof of the latter theorem (in the smooth case) is presented in Chapter IV of the book. This chapter contains also a short introduction into the geometry of the unit tangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold and the basic facts about the geodesic flow. In an appendix by Misha Brin, a self-contained and short proof of the ergodicity of the geodesic flow of a compact Riemannian manifold of negative curvature is given. The proof is elementary and should be accessible to the non-specialist. Some of the essential features and problems of the ergodic theory of smooth dynamical systems are discussed, and the appendix can serve as an introduction into this theory.

Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis 1984

Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis 1984
Author: Dirk Ferus
Publisher: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1985-10
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

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All papers appearing in this volume are original research articles and have not been published elsewhere. They meet the requirements that are necessary for publication in a good quality primary journal. E.Belchev, S.Hineva: On the minimal hypersurfaces of a locally symmetric manifold. -N.Blasic, N.Bokan, P.Gilkey: The spectral geometry of the Laplacian and the conformal Laplacian for manifolds with boundary. -J.Bolton, W.M.Oxbury, L.Vrancken, L.M. Woodward: Minimal immersions of RP2 into CPn. -W.Cieslak, A. Miernowski, W.Mozgawa: Isoptics of a strictly convex curve. -F.Dillen, L.Vrancken: Generalized Cayley surfaces. -A.Ferrandez, O.J.Garay, P.Lucas: On a certain class of conformally flat Euclidean hypersurfaces. -P.Gauduchon: Self-dual manifolds with non-negative Ricci operator. -B.Hajduk: On the obstruction group toexistence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. -U.Hammenstaedt: Compact manifolds with 1/4-pinched negative curvature. -J.Jost, Xiaowei Peng: The geometry of moduli spaces of stable vector bundles over Riemannian surfaces. - O.Kowalski, F.Tricerri: A canonical connection for locally homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. -M.Kozlowski: Some improper affine spheres in A3. -R.Kusner: A maximum principle at infinity and the topology of complete embedded surfaces with constant mean curvature. -Anmin Li: Affine completeness and Euclidean completeness. -U.Lumiste: On submanifolds with parallel higher order fundamental form in Euclidean spaces. -A.Martinez, F.Milan: Convex affine surfaces with constant affine mean curvature. -M.Min-Oo, E.A.Ruh, P.Tondeur: Transversal curvature and tautness for Riemannian foliations. -S.Montiel, A.Ros: Schroedinger operators associated to a holomorphic map. -D.Motreanu: Generic existence of Morse functions on infinite dimensional Riemannian manifolds and applications. -B.Opozda: Some extensions of Radon's theorem.

Spaces of Constant Curvature

Spaces of Constant Curvature
Author: Joseph Albert Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1977
Genre: Geometry, Riemannian
ISBN:

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Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds

Foliations on Riemannian Manifolds and Submanifolds
Author: Vladimir Rovenski
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1461242703

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This monograph is based on the author's results on the Riemannian ge ometry of foliations with nonnegative mixed curvature and on the geometry of sub manifolds with generators (rulings) in a Riemannian space of nonnegative curvature. The main idea is that such foliated (sub) manifolds can be decom posed when the dimension of the leaves (generators) is large. The methods of investigation are mostly synthetic. The work is divided into two parts, consisting of seven chapters and three appendices. Appendix A was written jointly with V. Toponogov. Part 1 is devoted to the Riemannian geometry of foliations. In the first few sections of Chapter I we give a survey of the basic results on foliated smooth manifolds (Sections 1.1-1.3), and finish in Section 1.4 with a discussion of the key problem of this work: the role of Riemannian curvature in the study of foliations on manifolds and submanifolds.

Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis

Global Differential Geometry and Global Analysis
Author: Dirk Ferus
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2006-11-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 354046445X

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All papers appearing in this volume are original research articles and have not been published elsewhere. They meet the requirements that are necessary for publication in a good quality primary journal. E.Belchev, S.Hineva: On the minimal hypersurfaces of a locally symmetric manifold. -N.Blasic, N.Bokan, P.Gilkey: The spectral geometry of the Laplacian and the conformal Laplacian for manifolds with boundary. -J.Bolton, W.M.Oxbury, L.Vrancken, L.M. Woodward: Minimal immersions of RP2 into CPn. -W.Cieslak, A. Miernowski, W.Mozgawa: Isoptics of a strictly convex curve. -F.Dillen, L.Vrancken: Generalized Cayley surfaces. -A.Ferrandez, O.J.Garay, P.Lucas: On a certain class of conformally flat Euclidean hypersurfaces. -P.Gauduchon: Self-dual manifolds with non-negative Ricci operator. -B.Hajduk: On the obstruction group toexistence of Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature. -U.Hammenstaedt: Compact manifolds with 1/4-pinched negative curvature. -J.Jost, Xiaowei Peng: The geometry of moduli spaces of stable vector bundles over Riemannian surfaces. - O.Kowalski, F.Tricerri: A canonical connection for locally homogeneous Riemannian manifolds. -M.Kozlowski: Some improper affine spheres in A3. -R.Kusner: A maximum principle at infinity and the topology of complete embedded surfaces with constant mean curvature. -Anmin Li: Affine completeness and Euclidean completeness. -U.Lumiste: On submanifolds with parallel higher order fundamental form in Euclidean spaces. -A.Martinez, F.Milan: Convex affine surfaces with constant affine mean curvature. -M.Min-Oo, E.A.Ruh, P.Tondeur: Transversal curvature and tautness for Riemannian foliations. -S.Montiel, A.Ros: Schroedinger operators associated to a holomorphic map. -D.Motreanu: Generic existence of Morse functions on infinite dimensional Riemannian manifolds and applications. -B.Opozda: Some extensions of Radon's theorem.

Differential Geometry: Riemannian Geometry

Differential Geometry: Riemannian Geometry
Author: Robert Everist Greene
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 735
Release: 1993
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821814966

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The third of three parts comprising Volume 54, the proceedings of the Summer Research Institute on Differential Geometry, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, July 1990 (ISBN for the set is 0-8218-1493-1). Part 3 begins with an overview by R.E. Greene of some recent trends in Riemannia