1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480725003321

Autore

Eberlein Patrick <1944->

Titolo

Geodesics and ends in certain surfaces without conjugate points / / Patrick Eberlein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1978]

©1978

ISBN

1-4704-0204-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society ; ; number 199

Disciplina

516/.36

Soggetti

Geometry, Differential

Riemann surfaces

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Geodesics (Mathematics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Volume 13, issue 2 ... (first of 2 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: pages 110-111.

Nota di contenuto

""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER 1 PRELIMINARIES""; ""1. Definitions""; ""2. Isometries and limit sets""; ""3. Fundamental domains""; ""CHAPTER 2 FURTHER PROPERTIES OF UNIFORM VISIBILITY MANIFOLDS""; ""1. Busemann functions and horospheres""; ""2. Classification of isometries""; ""3. Classification of limit sets""; ""CHAPTER 3 PARABOLIC GEODESICS""; ""CHAPTER 4 THE ENDS OF M""; ""1. Definition of parabolic and expanding ends""; ""2. Asymptotes in finitely connected surfaces""; ""3. A characterization of parabolic geodesies""

""4. Total curvatures of neighborhoods of parabolic and expanding ends""""5. Structure of the divergent geodesies associated to an end""; ""CHAPTER 5 SEPARATING GEODESICS OF M""; ""1. Definition of separating geodesies""; ""2. The case of an infinite cyclic fundamental group""; ""3. The two components of the complement of a separating geodesic""; ""4. Further properties of separating geodesies""; ""5. Riemannian collared neighborhoods of expanding ends""; ""CHAPTER 6 THE SETS M[sub(0)] AND M*[sub(0)]""; ""1. Totally convex sets""

""2. Construction of the smallest closed totally convex set M[sub(0)]""""



3. Criteria for M[sub(0)] to be compact""; ""4. The compact deformation retract M*[sub(0)]""; ""REFERENCES""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136928903321

Autore

Lepselter Susan Claudia

Titolo

Resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / / Susan Lepselter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, MI : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

9780472121540 (eBook)

9780472072941 (hardback)

9780472052943 (paperback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 181 pages)

Disciplina

001.942

Soggetti

Human-alien encounters

Conspiracy theories - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the "uncanny" persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories--of race, class, gender, and power--become compressed into stories of uncanny memory.