Metric Foliations and Curvature

2009
ISBN: 978-3-7643-8714-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 268, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text documents some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis is less on the fibration itself and more on how to use it to either construct or understand a metric with curvature of fixed sign on a given space.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walschap, Gerard

Gromoll, Detlef

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Nicht-Euklidische Geometrie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Topologie Analytische Topologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Submersions, Foliations, and Metrics.- Basic Constructions and Examples.- Open Manifolds of Nonnegative Curvature.- Metric Foliations in Space Forms.