Metrics of positive scalar curvature and generalised Morse functions Part I / / Mark Walsh |
Autore | Walsh Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (80 p.) |
Disciplina | 516.3/62 |
Collana | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society |
Soggetto topico |
Curvature
Morse theory Riemannian manifolds Algebraic topology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4704-0597-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""0.1. Background""; ""0.2. Main results""; ""0.3. The connection with generalised Morse functions and Part II""; ""0.4. Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Definitions and Preliminary Results""; ""1.1. Isotopy and concordance in the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature""; ""1.2. Warped product metrics on the sphere""; ""1.3. Torpedo metrics on the disk""; ""1.4. Doubly warped products and mixed torpedo metrics""; ""1.5. Inducing a mixed torpedo metric with an embedding""; ""Chapter 2. Revisiting the Surgery Theorem""
""2.1. Surgery and cobordism""""2.2. Surgery and positive scalar curvature""; ""2.3. Outline of the proof of Theorem 2.3""; ""2.4. Part 1 of the proof: Curvature formulae for the first deformation""; ""2.5. Part 2 of the proof: A continuous bending argument""; ""2.6. Part 3 of the proof: Isotoping to a standard product""; ""2.7. Applying Theorem 2.3 over a compact family of psc-metrics""; ""2.8. The proof of Theorem 2.2 (The Improved Surgery Theorem)""; ""Chapter 3. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Cobordisms""; ""3.1. Morse Theory and admissible Morse functions"" ""3.2. A reverse Gromov-Lawson cobordism""""3.3. Continuous families of Morse functions""; ""Chapter 4. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Concordances""; ""4.1. Applying the Gromov-Lawson technique over a pair of cancelling surgeries""; ""4.2. Cancelling Morse critical points: The Weak and Strong Cancellation Theorems""; ""4.3. A strengthening of Theorem 4.2""; ""4.4. Standardising the embedding of the second surgery sphere""; ""Chapter 5. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy for Cancelling Surgeries""; ""5.1. Connected sums of psc-metrics"" ""5.2. An analysis of the metric g'', obtained from the second surgery""""5.3. The proof of Theorem 5.1""; ""Chapter 6. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy in the General Case""; ""6.1. A weaker version of Theorem 0.8""; ""6.2. The proof of the main theorem""; ""Appendix: Curvature Calculations from the Surgery Theorem""; ""Bibliography"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480096203321 |
Walsh Mark | ||
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Metrics of positive scalar curvature and generalised Morse functions Part I / / Mark Walsh |
Autore | Walsh Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (80 p.) |
Disciplina | 516.3/62 |
Collana | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society |
Soggetto topico |
Curvature
Morse theory Riemannian manifolds Algebraic topology |
ISBN | 1-4704-0597-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""0.1. Background""; ""0.2. Main results""; ""0.3. The connection with generalised Morse functions and Part II""; ""0.4. Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Definitions and Preliminary Results""; ""1.1. Isotopy and concordance in the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature""; ""1.2. Warped product metrics on the sphere""; ""1.3. Torpedo metrics on the disk""; ""1.4. Doubly warped products and mixed torpedo metrics""; ""1.5. Inducing a mixed torpedo metric with an embedding""; ""Chapter 2. Revisiting the Surgery Theorem""
""2.1. Surgery and cobordism""""2.2. Surgery and positive scalar curvature""; ""2.3. Outline of the proof of Theorem 2.3""; ""2.4. Part 1 of the proof: Curvature formulae for the first deformation""; ""2.5. Part 2 of the proof: A continuous bending argument""; ""2.6. Part 3 of the proof: Isotoping to a standard product""; ""2.7. Applying Theorem 2.3 over a compact family of psc-metrics""; ""2.8. The proof of Theorem 2.2 (The Improved Surgery Theorem)""; ""Chapter 3. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Cobordisms""; ""3.1. Morse Theory and admissible Morse functions"" ""3.2. A reverse Gromov-Lawson cobordism""""3.3. Continuous families of Morse functions""; ""Chapter 4. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Concordances""; ""4.1. Applying the Gromov-Lawson technique over a pair of cancelling surgeries""; ""4.2. Cancelling Morse critical points: The Weak and Strong Cancellation Theorems""; ""4.3. A strengthening of Theorem 4.2""; ""4.4. Standardising the embedding of the second surgery sphere""; ""Chapter 5. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy for Cancelling Surgeries""; ""5.1. Connected sums of psc-metrics"" ""5.2. An analysis of the metric g'', obtained from the second surgery""""5.3. The proof of Theorem 5.1""; ""Chapter 6. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy in the General Case""; ""6.1. A weaker version of Theorem 0.8""; ""6.2. The proof of the main theorem""; ""Appendix: Curvature Calculations from the Surgery Theorem""; ""Bibliography"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788859803321 |
Walsh Mark | ||
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Metrics of positive scalar curvature and generalised Morse functions Part I / / Mark Walsh |
Autore | Walsh Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (80 p.) |
Disciplina | 516.3/62 |
Collana | Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society |
Soggetto topico |
Curvature
Morse theory Riemannian manifolds Algebraic topology |
ISBN | 1-4704-0597-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""0.1. Background""; ""0.2. Main results""; ""0.3. The connection with generalised Morse functions and Part II""; ""0.4. Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter 1. Definitions and Preliminary Results""; ""1.1. Isotopy and concordance in the space of metrics of positive scalar curvature""; ""1.2. Warped product metrics on the sphere""; ""1.3. Torpedo metrics on the disk""; ""1.4. Doubly warped products and mixed torpedo metrics""; ""1.5. Inducing a mixed torpedo metric with an embedding""; ""Chapter 2. Revisiting the Surgery Theorem""
""2.1. Surgery and cobordism""""2.2. Surgery and positive scalar curvature""; ""2.3. Outline of the proof of Theorem 2.3""; ""2.4. Part 1 of the proof: Curvature formulae for the first deformation""; ""2.5. Part 2 of the proof: A continuous bending argument""; ""2.6. Part 3 of the proof: Isotoping to a standard product""; ""2.7. Applying Theorem 2.3 over a compact family of psc-metrics""; ""2.8. The proof of Theorem 2.2 (The Improved Surgery Theorem)""; ""Chapter 3. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Cobordisms""; ""3.1. Morse Theory and admissible Morse functions"" ""3.2. A reverse Gromov-Lawson cobordism""""3.3. Continuous families of Morse functions""; ""Chapter 4. Constructing Gromov-Lawson Concordances""; ""4.1. Applying the Gromov-Lawson technique over a pair of cancelling surgeries""; ""4.2. Cancelling Morse critical points: The Weak and Strong Cancellation Theorems""; ""4.3. A strengthening of Theorem 4.2""; ""4.4. Standardising the embedding of the second surgery sphere""; ""Chapter 5. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy for Cancelling Surgeries""; ""5.1. Connected sums of psc-metrics"" ""5.2. An analysis of the metric g'', obtained from the second surgery""""5.3. The proof of Theorem 5.1""; ""Chapter 6. Gromov-Lawson Concordance Implies Isotopy in the General Case""; ""6.1. A weaker version of Theorem 0.8""; ""6.2. The proof of the main theorem""; ""Appendix: Curvature Calculations from the Surgery Theorem""; ""Bibliography"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827647903321 |
Walsh Mark | ||
Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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