Métriques sous-riemanniennes de quasi-contact : forme normale et caustique
We contribute to the reverse of the Fundamental Theorem of Riemannian geometry: if a symmetric linear connection on a manifold is given, find non-degenerate metrics compatible with the connection (locally or globally) if there are any. The problem is not easy in general. For nowhere flat -manifolds, we formulate necessary and sufficient metrizability conditions. In the favourable case, we describe all compatible metrics in terms of the Ricci tensor. We propose an application in the calculus of...
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 53C24, 53C65, 53C21.This is a survey of the recent results by the author and Gunther Uhlmann on the boundary rigidity problem and on the associated tensor tomography problem.Author partly supported by NSF Grant DMS-0400869.
We construct geometric barriers for minimal graphs in We prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution of the vertical minimal equation in the interior of a convex polyhedron in extending continuously to the interior of each face, taking infinite boundary data on one face and zero boundary value data on the other faces.In , we solve the Dirichlet problem for the vertical minimal equation in a convex domain taking arbitrarily continuous finite boundary and asymptotic boundary data.We prove...