zero-dimensional. Bochner's theorem then follows from the fact that the isometry group of a closed Riemannian manifold is compact. Bochner's result on Killing...
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Riemannian geometry is the branch of differential geometry that studies Riemannian manifolds, defined as smooth manifolds with a Riemannian metric (an...
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Two theorems in the mathematical field of Riemannian geometry bear the name Myers–Steenrod theorem, both from a 1939 paper by Myers and Steenrod. The first...
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the mathematical field of differential geometry, there are various splitting theorems on when a pseudo-Riemannian manifold can be given as a metric product...
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In mathematics, Bochner's formula is a statement relating harmonic functions on a Riemannian manifold ( M , g ) {\displaystyle (M,g)} to the Ricci curvature...
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Shing-Tung Yau (section Comparison geometry)
However, it is a precise theorem of differential geometry and geometric analysis, in which physical systems are modeled by Riemannian manifolds with nonnegativity...
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(differential geometry) Soul theorem (Riemannian geometry) Sphere theorem (Riemannian geometry) Synge's theorem (Riemannian geometry) Toponogov's theorem (Riemannian...
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Ricci curvature (category Riemannian geometry)
differential geometry, the Ricci curvature tensor, named after Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, is a geometric object which is determined by a choice of Riemannian or...
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Eugenio Calabi (section Kähler geometry)
Laplacian comparison theorem in Riemannian geometry, which relates the Laplace–Beltrami operator, as applied to the Riemannian distance function, to...
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rather than Riemannian manifolds, would have a number of significant applications, with analogues of the classical Eells−Sampson rigidity theorem giving novel...
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Stochastic analysis on manifolds (redirect from Stochastic differential geometry)
give a probabilistic proof of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem. Stochastic differential geometry also applies in other areas of mathematics (e.g. mathematical...
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Richard S. Hamilton (section Nash–Moser theorem)
works on nonlinear partial differential equations in Lorentzian and Riemannian geometry and their applications to general relativity and topology." In 2024...
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(graph theory) Cheeger–Müller theorem soul theorem splitting theorem Collapsing manifold L² cohomology Riemannian geometry Faculty Profile 1984 U.S. and...
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1993) was a mathematician working on differential geometry who introduced the Bochner–Yano theorem. He also published a classical book about geometric...
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Harmonic map (category Riemannian geometry)
In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a smooth map between Riemannian manifolds is called harmonic if its coordinate representatives satisfy...
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number Complex geometry CR manifold Dolbeault cohomology Harmonic maps Harmonic morphisms Infinite-dimensional holomorphy Oka–Weil theorem That is an open...
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vanishing theorem Kodaira–Spencer mapping Kodaira dimension Kodaira surface Kodaira embedding theorem Kodaira's classification of singular fibers Bochner–Kodaira–Nakano...
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calculus of variations. Generalizing Bochner's work on harmonic functions, Eells and Sampson derived the Bochner identity, and used it to prove the triviality...
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computer scientist Hisashi Kobayashi. His research interests were in Riemannian and complex manifolds, transformation groups of geometric structures,...
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This optimal result is known as the sphere theorem for Riemannian manifolds. The Rauch comparison theorem is also named after Harry Rauch. He proved it...
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the geometry and analysis on symmetric spaces. In particular, he used new integral geometric methods to establish fundamental existence theorems for differential...
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Kähler identities (category Differential geometry)
Riemannian structure (R) of X {\displaystyle X} . The construction of these operators is standard in the literature on complex differential geometry....
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Salomon Bochner for his cumulative influence on the fields of probability theory, Fourier analysis, several complex variables, and differential geometry. 1979...
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variables. 1925 Luther P. Eisenhart (Princeton University): Non-Riemannian geometry. 1925 Dunham Jackson (University of Minnesota): The Theory of Approximations...
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theory of special functions, and to the theory of Riemannian symmetric spaces in differential geometry. Broadly speaking, the theory exists to abstract...
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