Two-dimensional Manifolds of Bounded Curvature

Two-dimensional Manifolds of Bounded Curvature
Author: Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1967
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821818763

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Proceedings and papers about in which the foundation of the intrinsic geometry of nonregular surfaces is developed.

Reshetnyak's Theory of Subharmonic Metrics

Reshetnyak's Theory of Subharmonic Metrics
Author: François Fillastre
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3031242556

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Despite the fundamental role played by Reshetnyak's work in the theory of surfaces of bounded integral curvature, the proofs of his results were only available in his original articles, written in Russian and often hard to find. This situation used to be a serious problem for experts in the field. This book provides English translations of the full set of Reshetnyak's articles on the subject. Together with the companion articles, this book provides an accessible and comprehensive reference for the subject. In turn, this book should concern any researcher (confirmed or not) interested in, or active in, the field of bounded integral curvature surfaces, or more generally interested in surface geometry and geometric analysis. Due to the analytic nature of Reshetnyak's approach, it appears that his articles are very accessible for a modern audience, comparing to the works using a more synthetic approach. These articles of Reshetnyak concern more precisely the work carried by the author following the completion of his PhD thesis, under the supervision of A.D. Alexandrov. Over the period from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, the Leningrad School of Geometry, developed a theory of the metric geometry of surfaces, similar to the classical theory of Riemannian surfaces, but with lower regularity, allowing greater flexibility. Let us mention A.D. Alexandrov, Y.D. Burago and V.A. Zalgaller. The types of surfaces studied by this school are now known as surfaces of bounded curvature. Particular cases are that of surfaces with curvature bounded from above or below, the study of which gained special attention after the works of M. Gromov and G. Perelman. Nowadays, these concepts have been generalized to higher dimensions, to graphs, and so on, and the study of metrics of weak regularity remains an active and challenging field. Reshetnyak developed an alternative and analytic approach to surfaces of bounded integral curvature. The underlying idea is based on the theorem of Gauss which states that every Riemannian surface is locally conformal to Euclidean space. Reshetnyak thus studied generalized metrics which are locally conformal to the Euclidean metric with conformal factor given by the logarithm of the difference between two subharmonic functions on the plane. Reshetnyak's condition appears to provide the correct regularity required to generalize classical concepts such as measure of curvature, integral geodesic curvature for curves, and so on, and in turn, to recover surfaces of bounded curvature. Chapter-No.7, Chapter-No.8, Chapter-No.12 and Chapter-No.13 are available open access under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Geometry IV

Geometry IV
Author: Yu.G. Reshetnyak
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662028972

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This book contains two surveys on modern research into non-regular Riemannian geometry, carried out mostly by Russian mathematicians. Coverage examines two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of bounded curvature and metric spaces whose curvature lies between two given constants. This book will be immensely useful to graduate students and researchers in geometry, in particular Riemannian geometry.

Geometry III

Geometry III
Author: Yu.D. Burago
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3662027518

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A volume devoted to the extremely clear and intrinsically beautiful theory of two-dimensional surfaces in Euclidean spaces. The main focus is on the connection between the theory of embedded surfaces and two-dimensional Riemannian geometry, and the influence of properties of intrinsic metrics on the geometry of surfaces.

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics

Encyclopaedia of Mathematics
Author: Michiel Hazewinkel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1993-01-31
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1556080085

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This ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MATHEMATICS aims to be a reference work for all parts of mathe matics. It is a translation with updates and editorial comments of the Soviet Mathematical Encyclopaedia published by 'Soviet Encyclopaedia Publishing House' in five volumes in 1977-1985. The annotated translation consists of ten volumes including a special index volume. There are three kinds of articles in this ENCYCLOPAEDIA. First of all there are survey-type articles dealing with the various main directions in mathematics (where a rather fme subdivi sion has been used). The main requirement for these articles has been that they should give a reasonably complete up-to-date account of the current state of affairs in these areas and that they should be maximally accessible. On the whole, these articles should be understandable to mathematics students in their first specialization years, to graduates from other mathematical areas and, depending on the specific subject, to specialists in other domains of science, en gineers and teachers of mathematics. These articles treat their material at a fairly general level and aim to give an idea of the kind of problems, techniques and concepts involved in the area in question. They also contain background and motivation rather than precise statements of precise theorems with detailed definitions and technical details on how to carry out proofs and constructions. The second kind of article, of medium length, contains more detailed concrete problems, results and techniques.

Extrinsic Geometry of Convex Surfaces

Extrinsic Geometry of Convex Surfaces
Author: Alekseĭ Vasilʹevich Pogorelov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1973
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821886618

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Geometry IV

Geometry IV
Author: Yu. G. Reshetnyak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-01-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783662028988

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