Piecewise Polynomial Spaces and Geometric Continuity of Curves.
Let F be a singular Riemannian foliation on a compact connected Riemannian manifold M. We demonstrate that global foliated vector fields generate a distribution tangent to the strata defined by the closures of leaves of F and which, in each stratum, is transverse to these closures of leaves.
Robert C. Reilly a obtenu des majorations de la première valeur propre du laplacien pour les hypersurfaces de l’espace euclidien. De plus, il a montré que le cas d’égalité dans ces majorations est atteint uniquement pour les sphères géodésiques. Dans cet exposé, nous nous intéressons au problème de pincement pour ces majorations. Nous montrons que si le cas d’égalité est presque atteint, alors l’hypersurface est proche d’une sphère, en un sens que nous préciserons. Nous déduisons ensuite des résultats...
Let r = 3, 4, ... , ∞, ω. The Cr-Carathéodory's Conjecture states that every Cr convex embedding of a 2-sphere into R3 must have at least two umbilics. The Cr-Loewner's conjecture (stronger than the one of Carathéodory) states that there are no umbilics of index bigger than one. We show that these two conjectures are equivalent to others about planar vector fields. For instance, if r ≠ ω, Cr-Carathéodory's Conjecture is equivalent to the following one:Let ρ > 0 and β: U ⊂ R2 → R, be of class...
We study/construct (proper and non-proper) Morse functions f on complete Riemannian manifolds X such that the hypersurfaces f(x) = t for all −∞ < t < +∞ have positive mean curvatures at all non-critical points x ∈ X of f. We show, for instance, that if X admits no such (not necessarily proper) function, then it contains a (possibly, singular) complete (possibly, compact) minimal hypersurface of finite volume.