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Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric, i.e. with an inner. The study of Riemannian geometry is rather meaningless without some basic knowledge on Gaussian geometry i.e. the geometry of curves and surfaces in.
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Advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying mathematics. In addition to playing a key role in development of monotonic functionals for the Ricci flow, weighted Ricci curvature bounds also appear in the theory of optimal transport, isoperimetric inequalities, and general relativity and cosmology.
Despite the vast amount of research in Ricci curvature of manifolds with density, there was no corresponding theory of weighted sectional curvature until recently; another goal of this project is to further develop the theory of weighted sectional curvature bounds, including investigating applications and connections to other areas of mathematics. Recent collaborative work of the investigator also introduces a new geometric approach to manifolds with density that places a certain torsion free affine connection as the fundamental object of study.
This approach not only provides new insight into the weighted Ricci and sectional curvatures but also suggests new natural structures that promise novel results, such as a weighted holonomy group, which will be investigated. Some full text articles may not yet be available without a charge during the embargo administrative interval. Some links on this page may take you to non-federal websites. Their policies may differ from this site. Please report errors in award information by writing to: awardsearch nsf.
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Recent Awards. Presidential and Honorary Awards. He went on to develop Riemannian geometry, which unified and vastly generalized the three types of geometry, as well as the concept of a manifold or mathematical space, which generalized the ideas of curves and surfaces.
A turning point in his career occurred in when, at the age of 26, have gave a lecture on the foundations of geometry and outlined his vision of a mathematics of many different kinds of space, only one of which was the flat, Euclidean space which we appear to inhabit. He also introduced one-dimensional complex manifolds known as Riemann surfaces. He introduced a collection of numbers known as a tensor at every point in space, which would describe how much it was bent or curved.
View Article Google Scholar 5. View all volumes in this series: Pure and Applied Mathematics. Chow, P. In the presentation you should outline the paper, and go through one proof selected by the instructor about 1 month in advance in detail. Thresholds for different confidence levels are depicted in gray. These lectures will discuss classical and more recent research on selected topics in the area of Einstein metrics on 4-dimensional manifolds.
For instance, in four spatial dimensions, a collection of ten numbers is needed at each point to describe the properties of the mathematical space or manifold, no matter how distorted it may be.