A Variational Proof of the Gauss-Bonnet Formula.
In his book on convex polytopes [2] A. D. Aleksandrov raised a general question of finding variational formulations and solutions to geometric problems of existence of convex polytopes in , n ≥ 2, with prescribed geometric data. Examples of such problems for closed convex polytopes for which variational solutions are known are the celebrated Minkowski problem [2] and the Gauss curvature problem [20]. In this paper we give a simple variational proof of existence for the A. D. Aleksandrov problem...
In this paper we establish a volume comparison theorem for cocentric metric balls at arbitrary point for manifolds with asymptotically nonnegative Ricci curvature, which will allow us to prove the finiteness of the number of ends.
Si considera la seconda forma fondamentale di foliazioni su varietà riemanniane e si ottiene una formula per il laplaciano - Se ne deducono alcune implicazioni per foliazioni su varietà a curvatura costante.
We discuss spacecraft Doppler tracking for detecting gravitational waves in which Doppler data recorded on the ground are linearly combined with Doppler measurements made on board a spacecraft. By using the four-link radio system first proposed by Vessot and Levine [1] we derive a new method for removing from the combined data the frequency fluctuations due to the Earth troposphere, ionosphere, and mechanical vibrations of the antenna on the ground. This method also reduces the frequency fluctuations...
This article studies the abelian analytic torsion on a closed, oriented, Sasakian three-manifold and identifies this quantity as a specific multiple of the natural unit symplectic volume form on the moduli space of flat abelian connections. This identification computes the analytic torsion explicitly in terms of Seifert data.
We classify the -dimensional compact nilmanifolds that admit abelian complex structures, and for any such complex structure we describe the space of symplectic forms which are compatible with .
The set of all Abelian simply transitive subgroups of the affine group naturally corresponds to the set of real solutions of a system of algebraic equations. We classify all simply transitive subgroups of the symplectic affine group by constructing a model space for the corresponding variety of solutions. Similarly, we classify the complete global model spaces for flat special Kähler manifolds with a constant cubic form.
In the sub-Riemannian framework, we give geometric necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of abnormal extremals of the Maximum Principle. We give relations between abnormality, -rigidity and length minimizing. In particular, in the case of three dimensional manifolds we show that, if there exist abnormal extremals, generically, they are locally length minimizing and in the case of four dimensional manifolds we exhibit abnormal extremals which are not -rigid and which can be minimizing...