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Global Differential Geometry: The Mathematical Legacy of Alfred Gray
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Marisa Fernández and Joseph A. Wolf, Editors
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
2001; Volume 288
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2750-5 (print); 978-0-8218-7878-1 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/288
MathSciNet review: 1870993
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- Ivan K. Babenko and Iskander A. Taimanov – On the formality problem for symplectic manifolds [MR 1870995]
- Thomas F. Banchoff – Osculating tubes and self-linking for curves on the three-sphere [MR 1870996]
- E. Boeckx and L. Vanhecke – Isoparametric functions and harmonic and minimal unit vector fields [MR 1870997]
- S. K. Donaldson – The Seiberg-Witten equations and almost-Hermitian geometry [MR 1870998]
- Helaman Ferguson – Sculpture inspired by work with Alfred Gray: Kepler elliptic curves and minimal surface sculptures of the planets [MR 1870999]
- Misha Gromov – Mesoscopic curvature and hyperbolicity [MR 1871000]
- Nigel Hitchin – Stable forms and special metrics [MR 1871001]
- A. Huckleberry and M. Völler – A CR-momentum ansatz for nilpotent groups [MR 1871002]
- O. Kowalski, M. Sekizawa and Z. Vlášek – Can tangent sphere bundles over Riemannian manifolds have strictly positive sectional curvature? [MR 1871003]
- Vicente Miquel – Volumes of geodesic balls and spheres associated to a metric connection with torsion [MR 1871004]
- Emilio Musso and Lorenzo Nicolodi – Special isothermic surfaces and solitons [MR 1871005]
- Antonio Ros – The isoperimetric and Willmore problems [MR 1871006]
- Simon Salamon – Almost parallel structures [MR 1871007]
- Paul Wellin – Technical computing with Mathematica [MR 1871008]
- Joseph A. Wolf – Complex geometry and representations of Lie groups [MR 1871009]
- Juan A. Aledo and José A. Pastor – On the volume of compact spacelike hypersurfaces with hyperbolic boundary in Minkowski space [MR 1871010]
- Luis J. Alías and Bennett Palmer – Stability of zero mean curvature surfaces in flat Lorentzian $4$-manifolds [MR 1871011]
- Luis Álvarez-Cónsul and Oscar García-Prada – Hitchin-Kobayashi correspondence for equivariant bundles on $X\times \Bbb P^1$ [MR 1871012]
- J. Arroyo and O. J. Garay – Hopf vesicles in $S^3(1)$ [MR 1871013]
- Vitaly V. Balashchenko – Invariant nearly Kähler $f$-structures on homogeneous spaces [MR 1871014]
- N. Bokan, M. Djorić and U. Simon – An extension of A. Gray’s investigations on small geodesic balls [MR 1871015]
- Vincent Borrelli, Fabiano Brito and Olga Gil-Medrano – An energy minimizing family of unit vector fields on odd-dimensional spheres [MR 1871016]
- Lluís Bruna and Joan Girbau – Is it admissible to linearize the Einstein equation in the presence of matter? [MR 1871017]
- Jarolím Bureš – Solutions of some conformally invariant equations of the first order [MR 1871018]
- Renzo Caddeo, Stefano Montaldo and Paola Piu – On biharmonic maps [MR 1871019]
- María A. Cañadas-Pinedo and Ceferino Ruiz – Characterizations of Pfaffian systems. Consequences in dimension five [MR 1871020]
- Jong Taek Cho – On a new class of contact Riemannian manifolds [MR 1871021]
- Nir Cohen, Caio J. C. Negreiros and Luiz A. B. San Martin – Description of $(1,2)$-symplectic metrics on flag manifolds [MR 1871022]
- Georges Dloussky – Complex surfaces with Betti numbers $b_1=1,\ b_2>0$ and finite quotients [MR 1871023]
- Isabel G. Dotti and Anna Fino – Hypercomplex nilpotent Lie groups [MR 1871024]
- Maria J. Druetta – $\mathfrak {C}$-spaces of Iwasawa type and Damek-Ricci spaces [MR 1871025]
- M. Elisa E. L. Galvão and Célia C. Góes – Deformations of constant mean curvature surfaces in half space models [MR 1871026]
- Peter Gilkey and Raina Ivanova – The geometry of the skew-symmetric curvature operator in the complex setting [MR 1871027]
- Hubert Gollek – Representing minimal curves in $\Bbb C^3$ by differential operators [MR 1871028]
- Luis Guijarro – Isometric immersions without positive Ricci curvature [MR 1871029]
- Josef Janyška – Natural Poisson and Jacobi structures on the tangent bundle of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold [MR 1871030]
- Hugo Jiménez and Santiago López de Medrano – On Alfred Gray’s elliptical catenoid [MR 1871031]
- Jair Koiller, Paulo R. Rodrigues and Paulo Pitanga – Sub-Riemannian geometry and non-holonomic mechanics [MR 1871032]
- Miroslav Kureš – Weil algebras of generalized higher order velocities bundles [MR 1871033]
- Jorge Lauret – The variety of Lie algebras from certain Riemannian viewpoint [MR 1871034]
- Rafael López – How to use MATHEMATICA$^\textrm {TM}$ to find cyclic surfaces of constant curvature in Lorentz-Minkowski space [MR 1871035]
- E. Loubeau – The Fuglede-Ishihara and Baird-Eells theorems for $p>1$ [MR 1871036]
- Dmitri V. Millionschikov – Cohomology of nilmanifolds and Gontcharova’s theorem [MR 1871037]
- Vicente Muñoz, Fran Presas and Ignacio Sols – Asymptotically holomorphic embeddings of contact manifolds in projective spaces [MR 1871038]
- Hideki Omori, Yoshiaki Maeda, Naoya Miyazaki and Akira Yoshioka – Convergent star products on Fréchet linear Poisson algebras of Heisenberg type [MR 1871039]
- Alexander Onischenko, Dušan Repovš and Arkady Skopenkov – Resolutions of $2$-polyhedra by fake surfaces and embeddings into $\Bbb R^4$ [MR 1871040]
- Liviu Ornea and Paolo Piccinni – Cayley $4$-frames and a quaternion Kähler reduction related to $\textrm {Spin}(7)$ [MR 1871042]
- Maurizio Parton – Old and new structures on products of spheres [MR 1871043]
- L. Del Riego – $1$-homogeneous sprays in Finsler manifolds [MR 1871044]
- José Ignacio Royo Prieto – The Gysin sequence for Riemannian flows [MR 1871045]
- Tomasz Rybicki – On contact groupoids and Legendre bisections [MR 1871046]
- Marcos Salvai – Affine maximal tori intersecting a fixed one [MR 1871047]
- Alessandro Savo – On the asymptotic series of the heat content [MR 1871048]
- Yoshihiko Tazawa – Visualization of flat slant surfaces in $\Bbb C^2$ [MR 1871049]
- Aleksy Tralle – On solvable Lie groups without lattices [MR 1871050]
- Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Eugenio Calabi, James Eells, Oscar Garcia-Prada and Misha Gromov – Where does geometry go? A research and education perspective [MR 1871051]