Metric and Differential Geometry: The Jeff Cheeger Anniversary Volume

Book Overview

Preface.- Blaine Lawson, Early Work of Jeff Cheeger.- Mike Anderson, Boundary value problems for metrics on 3-manifolds.- Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun, Space of Kaehler metrics (V) - Kaehler quantization.- Reese Harvey and Blaine Lawson, Split special Lagrangian geometry.- Christina Sormani, How Riemannian manifolds converge: a survey.- Gang Tian, Existence of Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds.- Pekka Koskela and K. Wildrick, Analytic properties of quasiconformal mappings between metric spaces.- Assaf Naor, An application of metric cotype to quasisymmetric embeddings.- Jean-Michel Bismut, Index theory and the hypoelliptic Laplacian.- Xianzhe Dai and Richard Melrose, Adiabatic limits, heat kernels and analytic torsion.- Xiaonan Ma and Weiping Zhang, Transversal index and L2-index for manifolds with boundary.- Werner Mueller, The asymptotics of the Ray-Singer analytic torsion of hyperbolic 3-manifolds.- James Simons and Dennis Sullivan, Differential characters for K-theory.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034802560
• ISBN13: 9783034802567
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"