"Diffeology is an extension of differential geometry. With a minimal set of axioms, diffeology allows us to deal simply but rigorously with objects which do not fall within the usual field of differential geometry: quotients of manifolds (even non-Hausdorff), spaces of functions…
Concentration, functional inequalities, and isoperimetry: International Workshop on Concentration, Function…
by Houdré, Christian, International Workshop on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, Florida Atlantic University)
fromContemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society)
Concentration, functional inequalities, and isoperimetry: International Workshop on Concentration, Function…
by Houdré, Christian, International Workshop on Concentration, Functional Inequalities, and Isoperimetry, Florida Atlantic University)
fromContemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society)
"A basic problem in differential geometry is to find canonical metrics on manifolds. The best known example of this is the classical uniformization theorem for Riemann surfaces. Extremal metrics were introduced by Calabi as an attempt at finding a higher-dimensional generalizati…