Some remarks on vector analysis.
We present critical groups estimates for a functional defined on the Banach space , bounded domain in , , associated to a quasilinear elliptic equation involving -laplacian. In spite of the lack of an Hilbert structure and of Fredholm property of the second order differential of in each critical point, we compute the critical groups of in each isolated critical point via Morse index.
We investigate the curvature and topology of Finsler manifolds, mainly the growth of the fundamental group. By choosing a new counting function for the fundamental group that does not rely on the generators, we are able to discuss the topic in a more general case, namely, we do not demand that the manifold is compact or the fundamental group is finitely generated. Among other things, we prove that the fundamental group of a forward complete and noncompact Finsler n-manifold (M,F) with nonnegative...
Motivated by the study of CR-submanifolds of codimension in , the authors consider here a -dimensional oriented manifold equipped with a -dimensional distribution. Under some non-degeneracy condition, two different geometric situations can occur. In the elliptic case, one constructs a canonical almost complex structure on ; the hyperbolic case leads to a canonical almost product structure. In both cases the only local invariants are given by the obstructions to integrability for these structures....