Recent Progress In Conformal Geometry PDF
by Bahri Abbas Bahri, Xu Yongzhong Xu
Part of the Icp Advanced Texts In Mathematics series
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This book presents a new front of research in conformal geometry, on sign-changing Yamabe-type problems and contact form geometry in particular. New ground is broken with the establishment of a Morse lemma at infinity for sign-changing Yamabe-type problems. This family of problems, thought to be out of reach a few years ago, becomes a family of problems which can be studied: the book lays the foundation for a program of research in this direction.In contact form geometry, a cousin of symplectic geometry, the authors prove a fundamental result of compactness in a variational problem on Legrendrian curves, which allows one to define a homology associated to a contact structure and a vector field of its kernel on a three-dimensional manifold. The homology is invariant under deformation of the contact form, and can be read on a sub-Morse complex of the Morse complex of the variational problem built with the periodic orbits of the Reeb vector-field. This book introduces, therefore, a practical tool in the field, and this homology becomes computable.
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- Pages:524 pages
- Publisher:World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publication Date:05/04/2007
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- ISBN:9781908979315
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:524 pages
- Publisher:World Scientific Publishing Company
- Publication Date:05/04/2007
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- ISBN:9781908979315
