• In Riemannian geometry, a collapsing or collapsed manifold is an n-dimensional manifold M that admits a sequence of Riemannian metrics gi, such that as...
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  • diameter going to zero, so the almost-flat manifold is a special case of a collapsing manifold, which is collapsing along all directions. According to the...
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  • concept Collapsing manifold Collapse, the action of collapsing or telescoping objects Collapsing user interface elements Accordion (GUI) -- collapsing list...
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  • where g is a continuous function from B0 into A0. Perelman’s collapsing theorem for 3-manifolds, the capstone of his proof of Thurston's geometrization conjecture...
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    Perelman's collapsing theorem for 3-manifolds. J. Geom. Anal. 21 (2011), no. 4, 807–869. Kleiner, Bruce; Lott, John. Locally collapsed 3-manifolds. Astérisque...
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    In differential geometry, a Riemannian manifold is a geometric space on which many geometric notions such as distance, angles, length, volume, and curvature...
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  • symbol Coarse geometry Collapsing manifold Complete manifold According to the Riemannian Hopf-Rinow theorem, a Riemannian manifold is complete as a metric...
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    manifolds while keeping their curvature bounded, II, with Mikhail Gromov. Journal of Differential Geometry. 31, 4. 1990. 269–298. Collapsing manifold...
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    "Locally collapsed 3-manifolds". Astérisque. 365 (7–99). Cao, Jianguo; Ge, Jian (2011). "A simple proof of Perelman's collapsing theorem for 3-manifolds". J...
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    Memorial Lectures. Cartan–Hadamard conjecture Cartan–Hadamard theorem Collapsing manifold Lévy–Gromov inequality Taubes's Gromov invariant Mostow rigidity...
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    gave a talk entitled, Collapsing Riemannian Manifolds and its Applications. Fukaya, Kenji (1987). "Collapsing Riemannian Manifolds and Eigenvalues of Laplace-Operators"...
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  • small diameter or large curvature. They show that the 3-sphere is a collapsing manifold: it admits a sequence of Riemannian metrics with uniformly bounded...
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  • Poincaré conjecture (category 3-manifolds)
    subject. Manifold Destiny Matveev, Sergei (2007). "1.3.4 Zeeman's Collapsing Conjecture". Algorithmic Topology and Classification of 3-Manifolds. Algorithms...
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  • Time (novel) (redirect from Manifold: Time)
    Manifold: Time is a 1999 science fiction novel by Stephen Baxter. It is the first of Baxter's Manifold Trilogy (the others being Manifold: Space and Manifold:...
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    Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates (category Lorentzian manifolds)
    These coordinates have the advantage that they cover the entire spacetime manifold of the maximally extended Schwarzschild solution and are well-behaved everywhere...
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  • aspect of a smooth manifold's topology. This diffeomorphism invariant was introduced by Mikhael Gromov. Given a smooth Riemannian manifold (M, g), one may...
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    air directly into the atmosphere. A vacuum hose connected to the intake manifold downstream of the throttle provides a reference pressure for the blowoff...
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    Wormhole (category Lorentzian manifolds)
    of the spacetime continuum, an asymptotic projection of the Calabi–Yau manifold manifesting itself in anti-de Sitter space. Wormholes are consistent with...
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  • manifolds. Its effect is to decompose a given manifold into two pieces. There is an inverse operation, the symplectic sum, that glues two manifolds together...
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  • theorems embed any abstract manifold in some Euclidean space. The Nash embedding theorem embeds an abstract Riemannian manifold isometrically in a Euclidean...
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    It assumes that the shape of the internal manifold is a Calabi–Yau manifold or generalized Calabi–Yau manifold which is equipped with non-zero values of...
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    Ricci flow (category 3-manifolds)
    renormalized to preserve volume. (Under the unrenormalized Ricci flow, the manifold collapses to a point in finite time.) However, this doesn't prove the full geometrization...
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  • (homotopy equivalent to a point), but not collapsible. Any n-dimensional PL manifold that is collapsible is in fact piecewise-linearly isomorphic to an n-ball...
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    temperature is no longer high enough to prevent it from collapsing under its own weight. The collapse may be stopped by the degeneracy pressure of the star's...
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  • geometrical theory of gravitation are tensor fields defined on a Lorentzian manifold representing spacetime. This article is a general description of the mathematics...
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    together) as when a covering map degenerates at a point of a space, with some collapsing of the fibers of the mapping. In complex analysis, the basic model can...
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    four basic types of breaking water waves. They are spilling, plunging, collapsing, and surging. When the ocean floor has a gradual slope, the wave will...
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  • time where the curvature becomes infinite, or spacetime stops being a manifold. Singularities can be found in all the black-hole spacetimes, the Schwarzschild...
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  • Nilmanifold (redirect from Nil manifold)
    In mathematics, a nilmanifold is a differentiable manifold which has a transitive nilpotent group of diffeomorphisms acting on it. As such, a nilmanifold...
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    center manifold. In other words, the 4-dimensional system collapses onto a 2-dimensional plane. Any solution starting off the center manifold will decay...
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