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Barbilian's metrization procedure in the plane yields either Riemannian or Lagrange generalized metrics

Wladimir G. Boskoff, Bogdan D. Suceavă (2008)

Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal

In the present paper we answer two questions raised by Barbilian in 1960. First, we study how far can the hypothesis of Barbilian's metrization procedure can be relaxed. Then, we prove that Barbilian's metrization procedure in the plane generates either Riemannian metrics or Lagrance generalized metrics not reducible to Finslerian or Langrangian metrics.

Bergman coordinates

Steven R. Bell (2006)

Studia Mathematica

Various incarnations of Stefan Bergman's notion of representative coordinates will be given that are useful in a variety of contexts. Bergman wanted his coordinates to map to canonical regions, but they fail to do this for multiply connected regions. We show, however, that it is possible to define generalized Bergman coordinates that map multiply connected domains to quadrature domains which satisfy a long list of desirable properties, making them excellent candidates to be called Bergman representative...

Bernstein and De Giorgi type problems: new results via a geometric approach

Alberto Farina, Berardino Sciunzi, Enrico Valdinoci (2008)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

We use a Poincaré type formula and level set analysis to detect one-dimensional symmetry of stable solutions of possibly degenerate or singular elliptic equations of the form div a ( | u ( x ) | ) u ( x ) + f ( u ( x ) ) = 0 . Our setting is very general and, as particular cases, we obtain new proofs of a conjecture of De Giorgi for phase transitions in  2 and  3 and of the Bernstein problem on the flatness of minimal area graphs in  3 . A one-dimensional symmetry result in the half-space is also obtained as a byproduct of our analysis. Our approach...

Bernstein classes

N. Roytwarf, Yosef Yomdin (1997)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

One of the classical Bernstein inequalities compares the maxima of a polynomial of a given degree on the interval [-1,1] and on the ellipse in the complex plane with the focuses -1, 1 and the semiaxes R . We prove a similar inequality for a branch of an algebraic function of a given degree on the maximal disk of its regularity, with the explicitly given constant, depending on the degree only. In particular, this improves a recent inequality of Fefferman and Narasimhan and answers one of their questions....

Bilipschitz embeddings of metric spaces into euclidean spaces.

Stephen Semmes (1999)

Publicacions Matemàtiques

When does a metric space admit a bilipschitz embedding into some finite-dimensional Euclidean space? There does not seem to be a simple answer to this question. Results of Assouad [A1], [A2], [A3] do provide a simple answer if one permits some small ("snowflake") deformations of the metric, but unfortunately these deformations immediately disrupt some basic aspects of geometry and analysis, like rectifiability, differentiability, and curves of finite length. Here we discuss a (somewhat technical)...

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