Complex, Contact and Symmetric Manifolds (eBook)

In Honor of L. Vanhecke

Oldrich Kowalski, Emilio E. Musso, Domenico Perrone (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2007 | 2005
X, 278 Seiten
Birkhäuser Boston (Verlag)
978-0-8176-4424-6 (ISBN)

Infos

* Contains research and survey articles by well known and respected mathematicians on recent developments and research trends in differential geometry and topology

* Dedicated in honor of Lieven Vanhecke, as a tribute to his many fruitful and inspiring contributions to these fields

* Papers include all necessary introductory and contextual material to appeal to non-specialists, as well as researchers and differential geometers

Inhalt

* Preface * Acknowledgments * Authors’ Addresses * List of Participants * D.E. Blair: Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds * E. Boeckx: A case for curvature: the unit tangent bundle * A.A. Borisenko: Convex hypersurfaces in Hadamard manifolds * G. Calvaruso: Contact metric geometry of the unit tangent sphere bundle * V. Cortés and L. Schäfer: Topological-antitopological fusion equations, pluriharmonic maps and special Kähler manifolds * P. de Bartolomeis: Z2 and Z-Deformation Theory for Holomorphic and Symplectic Manifolds * J.C. Díaz-Ramos, E. García-Río and L. Hervella: Total scalar curvatures of geodesic spheres and of boundaries of geodesic disks * M. Djoric: Commutative condition on the second fundamental form of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of a Kähler manifold * C. Dunn and P.B. Gilkey: Curvature homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally homogeneous * M. Fernández and V. Muñoz: The Geography of Non-formal Manifolds * A. Fujiki and M. Pontecorvo: On Hermitian geometry of complex surfaces * O. Gil-Medrano: Unit vector fields that are critical points of the volume and of the energy: characterization and examples * O. Kowalski and Z. Vlášek: On 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with prescribed Ricci eigenvalues * A.M. Naveira: Two problems in real and complex integral geometry * T. Oguro and K. Sekigawa: Notes on the Goldberg conjecture in dimension four * C-L. Terng and E. Wang: Curved flats, exterior differential systems, and conservation laws * K. Tsukada: Symmetric submanifolds of Riemannian symmetric spaces and symmetric R-spaces * J.A. Wolf: Complex forms of Quaternionic SymmetricSpaces

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.7.2007
• Reihe/Serie: Progress in Mathematics
• Reihe/Serie: Progress in Mathematics
• Zusatzinfo: X, 278 p.
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: algebraic topology • Curvature • Differential Geometry • eigenvalue • manifold • Symplectic Geometry • Volume
• ISBN-10: 0-8176-4424-5 / 0817644245
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8176-4424-6 / 9780817644246