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This book was intended to serve as supporting material for a mini-course on web geometry delivered at the 27th Brazilian Mathematical Colloquium which took place at IMPA in the last week of July 2009.

2011-07-04abs ↗pdf ↗

These are notes of a mini-course given at Dennisfest in June 2001. The goal of these notes is to give a self-contained survey of deformation quantization, operad theory, and graph homology. Some new results related to "String Topology" and cacti are announced in Section 2.7.

2001-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

These lecture notes are based on a mini-course given by the author at the sixth KAWA Winter School on March 23-26, 2015 at the Centro De Giorgi of Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. They provide an introduction to the study of the Kahler-Ricci flow on compact Kahler manifolds, and a detailed exposition of some recent de…

2015-08-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Yang-Mills theory is growing at the interface between high energy physics and mathematics. It is well known that Yang-Mills theory and Gauge theory in general had a profound impact on the development of modern differential and algebraic geometry. One could quote Donaldson invariants in four dimensional differential top…

2015-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

These notes represent a much expanded and updated version of the \textquotedblleft mini course\textquotedblright that the author gave at the ETH (Zürich) and the University of Zürich in February of 1995. The purpose of these notes is to first provide some basic background to Riemannian geometry and stochastic calculus …

2004-03-03abs ↗pdf ↗

These notes are based on the mini-course given in June 2004 in Cetraro, Italy, in the frame of a C.I.M.E. school. Of course, they contain much more material that I could present in the 6 hours course. The main goal is to give an idea of the general variational and dynamical nature of nice and powerful concepts and resu…

2005-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The abstract discusses how trisections relate to 4-manifolds, similar to how Heegaard splittings relate to 3-manifolds.

problem Exploring the analogy between Heegaard splittings and trisections in 3D and 4D manifolds.
method Develops the analogy through definitions, Morse theory, and diagrammatic descriptions in both 4-manifolds and those with boundaries or embedded submanifolds.
result Clarifies the distinction between different perspectives on decompositions of manifolds in 4D.

Lecture notes on Lorentz geometry, focusing on curves and surfaces.

problem Diagonalization of the Weingarten map for timelike surfaces and classification of surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature.
method Analysis of linear algebra in pseudo-Euclidean space, application of the Fundamental Theorem of Curves, and use of split-complex algebra.
result Local classification of surfaces with constant Gaussian curvature and Weierstrass' representation formula.

In this lecture notes, we aim at giving an introduction to the Kähler-Ricci flow (KRF) on Fano manifolds. It covers some of the developments of the KRF in its first twenty years (1984-2003), especially an essentially self-contained exposition of Perelman's uniform estimates on the scalar curvature, the diameter, and th…

2012-12-26abs ↗pdf ↗

This work explores symplectic structures on graded manifolds and higher Lie groupoids.

problem Understanding symplectic structures on graded manifolds and their global counterparts.
method Introduction and study of graded manifolds, symplectic Q-manifolds, higher Lie groupoids, and their symplectic structures.
result Developed a graded analogue of Weinstein's tubular neighborhood theorem and explored its applications.