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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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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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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called a conformal Killing vector, CKV, or conformal colineation), is a vector field X {\displaystyle X} whose (locally defined) flow defines conformal transformations...
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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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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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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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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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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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In projective geometry, a special conformal transformation is a linear fractional transformation that is not an affine transformation. Thus the generation...
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In conformal differential geometry, a conformal connection is a Cartan connection on an n-dimensional manifold M arising as a deformation of the Klein...
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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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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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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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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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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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flat metric times the conformal factor 1 − 2 G M r {\displaystyle 1-{\frac {2GM}{r}}} . Weyl–Schouten theorem conformal geometry Yamabe problem Ray D'Inverno...
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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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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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replacement of the spacetime picture with a picture of evolving spatial conformal geometry opens the door for a number of new approaches to quantum gravity....
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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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Polyakov formula (category Conformal geometry)
In differential geometry and mathematical physics (especially string theory), the Polyakov formula expresses the conformal variation of the zeta functional...
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Ambient construction (category Conformal geometry)
as the (conformal) obstruction tensor. It is, along with the Weyl tensor, one of the two primitive invariants in conformal differential geometry. Aside...
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In mathematics, a Klein geometry is a type of geometry motivated by Felix Klein in his influential Erlangen program. More specifically, it is a homogeneous...
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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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specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and CR manifolds. He is best known for his work in Conformal geometry for his study of extremal...
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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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