We prove that the space of orientation preserving homeomorphisms of the 2-sphere which fix pointwise a nontrivial nonseparating continuum is a contractible absolute neighborhood retract homeomorphic to the separable Hilbert space .
Smooth bundles, whose fibres are distribution spaces, are introduced according to the notion of smoothness due to Frölicher. Some fundamental notions of differential geometry, such as tangent and jet spaces, Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket, connections and curvature, are suitably generalized. It is also shown that a classical connection on a finite-dimensional bundle naturally determines a connection on an associated distributional bundle.
The purpose of this paper is to give an illustration of results on integrability of distributions and orbits of vector fields on Banach manifolds obtained in [5] and [4]. Using arguments and results of these papers, in the context of a separable Hilbert space, we give a generalization of a Theorem of accessibility contained in [3] and [6] for articulated arms and snakes in a finite dimensional Hilbert space.
In finite-dimensional complex analysis, the extension of holomorphic maps has been investigated by many authors. In recent years some authors have considered this problem in the infinite-dimensional case. The aim of the present note is to study the extension of holomorphic maps with values in some Banach complex manifolds.
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...