Metric Foliations and Curvature
Gromoll, Detlef; Walschap, Gerard
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hardcover. Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative curvature, are constructed from only a handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof. This text documents some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBPH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 450.
In the past three or four decades, there has been increasing realization that metric foliations play a key role in understanding the structure of Riemannian manifolds, particularly those with positive or nonnegative sectional curvature. In fact, all known such spaces are constructed from only a representative handful by means of metric fibrations or deformations thereof.
This text is an attempt to document some of these constructions, many of which have only appeared in journal form. The emphasis here is less on the fibration itself and more on how to use it to either construct or understand a metric with curvature ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Progress in Mathematics
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764387143
SKU
V9783764387143
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99-15
Reviews for Metric Foliations and Curvature
From the reviews: “The book under review is one of five or six books on foliations that should be in the professional library of every geometer. … authors define the fundamental tensors of a Riemannian submersion tensors that carry over to a metric foliation on M … . gives a brief introduction to the geometry of the second tangent ... Read more