Author: Enrique Macias-virgos Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814549614 Category : Languages : en Pages : 258
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The subject of this volume, recent developments in foliation theory and important related analytic and geometric techniques, is an active field in the application of both global analysis and geometric topological theory of manifolds to the study of foliations. This volume includes research papers by leading specialists, giving an overview of this subject.
Author: Jesús A. Alvarez López Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814261173 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 343
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A brief portrait of the life and work of Professor Enrique Vidal Abascal / L.A. Cordero -- pt. A. Foliation theory. Characteristic classes for Riemannian foliations / S. Hurder. Non unique-ergodicity of harmonic measures: Smoothing Samuel Petite's examples / B, Deroin. On the uniform simplicity of diffeomorphism groups / T. Tsuboi. On Bennequin's isotopy lemma and Thurston's inequality / Y. Mitsumatsu. On the Julia sets of complex codimension-one transversally holomorphic foliations / T. Asuke. Singular Riemannian foliations on spaces without conjugate points / A. Lytchak. Variational formulae for the total mean curvatures of a codimension-one distribution / V. Rovenski and P. Walczak. On a Weitzenböck-like formula for Riemannian foliations / V. Slesar. Duality and minimality for Riemannian foliations on open manifolds / X.M. Masa. Open problems on foliations -- pt. B. Riemannian geometry. Graphs with prescribed mean curvature / M. Dajczer. Genuine isometric and conformal deformations of submanifolds / R. Tojeiro. Totally geodesic submanifolds in Riemannian symmetric spaces / S. Klein. The orbits of cohomogeneity one actions on complex hyperbolic spaces / J.C. Díaz-Ramos. Rigidity results for geodesic spheres in space forms / J. Roth. Mean curvature flow and Bernstein-Calabi results for spacelike graphs / G. Li and I.M.C. Salavessa. Riemannian geometric realizations for Ricci tensors of generalized algebraic curvature operators / P. Gilkey, S. Nikc̮ević and D. Westerman. Conformally Osserman multiply warped product structures in the Riemannian setting / M. Brozos-Vázquez, M.E. Vázquez-Abal and R. Vázquez-Lorenzo. Riemannian [symbol]-symmetric spaces / M. Goze and E. Remm. Methods for solving the Jacobi equation. Constant osculating rank vs. constant Jacobi osculating rank / T. Arias-Marco. On the reparametrization of affine homogeneous geodesics / Z. Dus̮ek. Conjugate connections and differential equations on infinite dimensional manifolds / M. Aghasi [und weitere]. Totally biharmonic submanifolds / D. Impera and S. Montaldo. The biharmonicity of unit vector fields on the Poincaré half-space H[symbol] / M.K. Markellos. Perspectives on biharmonic maps and submanifolds / A. Balmus. Contact pair structures and associated metrics / G. Bande and A. Hadjar. Paraquaternionic manifolds and mixed 3-structures / S. Ianus and G.E. Vi̮lcu. On topological obstruction of compact positively Ricci curved manifolds / W.-H. Chen. Gray curvature conditions and the Tanaka-Webster connection / R. Mocanu. Riemannian structures on higher order frame bundles from classical linear connections / J. Kurek and W.M. Mikulski. Distributions on the cotangent bundle from torsion-free connections / J. Kurek and W.M. Mikulski. On the geodesics of the rotational surfaces in the Bianchi-Cartan-Vranceanu spaces / P. Piu and M.M. Profir. Cotangent bundles with general natural Kähler structures of quasi-constant holomorphic sectional curvatures / S.L. Druta̮. Polynomial translation Weingarten surfaces in 3-dimensional Euclidean space / M.I. Munteanu and A.I. Nistor. G-structures defined on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds / I. Sánchez-Rodríguez -- List of participants
Author: Pawel Grzegorz Walczak Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9812772642 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 490
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This volume takes a look at the current state of the theory of foliations, with surveys and research articles concerning different aspects. The focused aspects cover geometry of foliated Riemannian manifolds, Riemannian foliations and dynamical properties of foliations and some aspects of classical dynamics related to the field. Among the articles readers may find a study of foliations which admit a transverse contractive flow, an extensive survey on non-commutative geometry of Riemannian foliations, an article on contact structures converging to foliations, as well as a few articles on conformal geometry of foliations. This volume also contains a list of open problems in foliation theory which were collected from the participants of the Foliations 2005 conference. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Morphisms of Pseudogroups and foliated Maps (808 KB). Contents: Morphisms of Pseudogroups and Foliated Maps (J ulvarez Lpez & X Masa); On Infinitesimal Derivatives of the Bott Class (T Asuke); Hirsch Foliations in Codimension Greater Than One (A Bis, S Hurder & J Shive); Extrinsic Geometry of Foliations on 3-Manifolds (D Bolotov); Extrinsic Geometry of Foliations (M Czarnecki & P Walczak); Transversal Twistor Spinors on a Riemannian Foliation (S D Jung); A Survey on Simplicial Volume and Invariants of Foliations and Laminations (T Kuessner); Harmonic Foliations of the Plane, a Conformal Approach (R Langevin); Consecutive Shifts Along Orbits of Vector Fields (S Maksymenko); Generalized Equivariant Index Theory (K Richardson); Vanishing Results for Spectral Terms of a Riemannian Foliation (V Slesar); On the Group of Foliation Preserving Diffeomorphisms (T Tsuboi); and other papers. Readership: Researchers and graduate students in such areas of mathematics as foliations, dynamical systems (Anosov and Morse-Smale, in particular), Riemannian and conformal geometry; and in other fields such as mathematical physics, non-commutative geometry and analysis on manifolds."
Author: Lawrence Conlon Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9814489700 Category : Languages : en Pages : 462
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This volume contains surveys and research articles regarding different aspects of the theory of foliation. The main aspects concern the topology of foliations of low-dimensional manifolds, the geometry of foliated Riemannian manifolds and the dynamical properties of foliations. Among the surveys are lecture notes devoted to the analysis of some operator algebras on foliated manifolds and the theory of confoliations (objects defined recently by W Thurston and Y Eliashberg, situated between foliations and contact structures). Among the research articles one can find a detailed proof of an unpublished theorem (due to Duminy) concerning ends of leaves in exceptional minimal sets.