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Preferred parameterisations on homogeneous curves

Michael Eastwood, Jan Slovák (2004)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

We show how to specify preferred parameterisations on a homogeneous curve in an arbitrary homogeneous space. We apply these results to limit the natural parameters on distinguished curves in parabolic geometries.

Prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on the standard sphere, part II : blow up analysis and applications

Zindine Djadli, Andrea Malchiodi, Mohameden Ould Ahmedou (2002)

Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Classe di Scienze

In this paper we perform a fine blow up analysis for a fourth order elliptic equation involving critical Sobolev exponent, related to the prescription of some conformal invariant on the standard sphere ( 𝕊 n , h ) . We derive from this analysis some a priori estimates in dimension 5 and 6 . On 𝕊 5 these a priori estimates, combined with the perturbation result in the first part of the present work, allow us to obtain some existence result using a continuity method. On 𝕊 6 we prove the existence of at least one...

Prescribing Gauss curvature of surfaces in 3-dimensional spacetimes Application to the Minkowski problem in the Minkowski space

Thierry Barbot, François Béguin, Abdelghani Zeghib (2011)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We study the existence of surfaces with constant or prescribed Gauss curvature in certain Lorentzian spacetimes. We prove in particular that every (non-elementary) 3-dimensional maximal globally hyperbolic spatially compact spacetime with constant non-negative curvature is foliated by compact spacelike surfaces with constant Gauss curvature. In the constant negative curvature case, such a foliation exists outside the convex core. The existence of these foliations, together with a theorem of C. Gerhardt,...

Prescribing Q -curvature on higher dimensional spheres

Khalil El Mehdi (2005)

Annales mathématiques Blaise Pascal

We study the problem of prescribing a fourth order conformal invariant on higher dimensional spheres. Particular attention is paid to the blow-up points, i.e. the critical points at infinity of the corresponding variational problem. Using topological tools and a careful analysis of the gradient flow lines in the neighborhood of such critical points at infinity, we prove some existence results.

Preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré en déformant la métrique par la courbure de Ricci

Gérard Besson (2004/2005)

Séminaire Bourbaki

Nous présentons la preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré, concernant les variétés compactes simplement connexes de dimension 3 , proposée par G. Perel’man. Elle repose sur l’étude de l’évolution de métriques riemanniennes sous le flot de la courbure de Ricci et sur les travaux antérieurs de R. Hamilton. Après une introduction aux techniques analytiques et géométriques développées par R. Hamilton, nous tentons de décrire la méthode de chirurgie métrique utilisée par G. Perel’man pour franchir les temps...

Principal bundles, groupoids, and connections

Anders Kock (2007)

Banach Center Publications

We clarify in which precise sense the theory of principal bundles and the theory of groupoids are equivalent; and how this equivalence of theories, in the differentiable case, reflects itself in the theory of connections. The method used is that of synthetic differential geometry.

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