conformal geometry is the study of the set of angle-preserving (conformal) transformations on a space. In a real two dimensional space, conformal geometry...
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orientation. Conformal maps preserve both angles and the shapes of infinitesimally small figures, but not necessarily their size or curvature. The conformal property...
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Causal structure (section Conformal geometry)
make a conformal rescaling of the metric with a conformal factor which falls off sufficiently fast to 0 as we approach infinity to get the conformal boundary...
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Contact structure Contact geometry Hamiltonian system Sasakian manifold Poisson manifold Möbius transformation Conformal map conformal connection tractor bundle...
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Look up conformal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Conformal may refer to: Conformal (software), in ASIC Software Conformal coating in electronics Conformal...
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Society of Japan, 1956. Obata, Morio. "Conformal transformations of Riemannian manifolds." Journal of Differential Geometry 4.3 (1970): 311–333. Obata, Morio...
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past conformal boundary of one copy of FLRW spacetime can be "attached" to the future conformal boundary of another, after an appropriate conformal rescaling...
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transformations that preserve the conformal geometry of the space. Several specific conformal groups are particularly important: The conformal orthogonal group. If...
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example, in Riemannian geometry distances and angles are specified, in symplectic geometry volumes may be computed, in conformal geometry only angles are specified...
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these are conformal maps, and in fact, where the space has three or more dimensions, the mappings generated by inversion are the only conformal mappings...
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Graphics using Conformal Geometric Algebra, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, pp. 14–26, 31—67 Bromborsky, A. (2008), Conformal Geometry via Geometric...
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and Conformal invariants (1973). He made decisive contributions to meromorphic curves, value distribution theory, Riemann surfaces, conformal geometry, quasiconformal...
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Poincaré half-plane model (redirect from Conformal half-plane model)
In non-Euclidean geometry, the Poincaré half-plane model is a way of representing the hyperbolic plane using points in the familiar Euclidean plane. Specifically...
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Conformal gravity refers to gravity theories that are invariant under conformal transformations in the Riemannian geometry sense; more accurately, they...
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Absolute geometry Affine geometry Algebraic geometry Analytic geometry Birational geometry Complex geometry Computational geometry Conformal geometry Constructive...
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Fractal (redirect from Fractal geometry)
J. W. Cannon, W. J. Floyd, W. R. Parry. Finite subdivision rules. Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, vol. 5 (2001), pp. 153–196. Carbone, Alessandra; Gromov...
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mathematics, hyperbolic geometry (also called Lobachevskian geometry or Bolyai–Lobachevskian geometry) is a non-Euclidean geometry. The parallel postulate...
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Weyl connection (category Conformal geometry)
differential geometry, a Weyl connection (also called a Weyl structure) is a generalization of the Levi-Civita connection that makes sense on a conformal manifold...
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well-suited to use in complex analysis, in particular in conformal maps and conformal geometry. A closely related notion is the transfinite diameter or...
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An Einstein–Weyl geometry is a smooth conformal manifold, together with a compatible Weyl connection that satisfies an appropriate version of the Einstein...
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Quasiconformal mapping (redirect from Quasi-conformal mapping)
and medical imaging. Computational quasi-conformal geometry has been developed, which extends the quasi-conformal theory into a discrete setting. It has...
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James W. Cannon (section 1990s and 2000s: Automatic groups, discrete conformal geometry and Cannon's conjecture)
Laakso, Conformal Assouad dimension and modulus. Geometric and Functional Analysis, vol 14 (2004), no. 6, pp. 1278–1321. I. Mineyev, Metric conformal structures...
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flat metric times the conformal factor 1 − 2 G M / r {\displaystyle \textstyle 1-{2GM}/{r}} . Weyl–Schouten theorem Conformal geometry Yamabe problem Ray...
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special case that the Weyl tensor is zero; this has been significant in conformal geometry. In 2017, they released a preprint claiming the general case, in which...
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behaves under a conformal change of a Riemannian metric. If n ≥ 3 and g is a metric and u is a smooth, positive function, then the conformal metric g ~ =...
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non-Euclidean geometry consists of two geometries based on axioms closely related to those that specify Euclidean geometry. As Euclidean geometry lies at the...
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Riemann sphere (category Projective geometry)
The Riemann surface's conformal structure does, however, determine a class of metrics: all those whose subordinate conformal structure is the given one...
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Penrose diagram (redirect from Conformal infinity)
readable introduction to the concept of conformal infinity plus examples. Frauendiener, Jörg (2004). "Conformal Infinity". Living Reviews in Relativity...
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A conformal field theory (CFT) is a quantum field theory that is invariant under conformal transformations. In two dimensions, there is an infinite-dimensional...
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Möbius transformation (category Conformal geometry)
bijective conformal orientation-preserving maps from the n-sphere to the n-sphere. Such a transformation is the most general form of conformal mapping of...
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