A Finsler geometry may be understood as a homogeneous variational problem, where the Finsler function is the Lagrangian. The extremals in Finsler geometry are curves, but in more general variational problems we might consider extremal submanifolds of dimension . In this minicourse we discuss these problems from a ge…
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Intro to Poisson geometry, focusing on basics and recent tools.
problem Understanding Poisson structures and their applications.
method Exercises leading to conclusions on foundational and recent topics.
result Introduction to Poisson geometry basics and recent developments.
Lecture notes for a minicourse to given in the XVII Brazilian School of Geometry, UFAM (Amazonas), Brazil, July 2012.
Lecture notes for the minicourse "Holonomy Groups in Riemannian geometry", a part of the XVII Brazilian School of Geometry, to be held at UFAM (Amazonas, Brazil), in July of 2012.
An article based on a four-lecture introductory minicourse on minimal surface theory given at the 2013 summer program of the Institute for Advanced Study and the Park City Mathematics Institute.
These are the very unpretentious lecture notes for the minicourse "Introduction to evolution equations in Geometry," a part of the Brazilian Colloquium of Mathematics held at IMPA, in July of 2009.
This paper surveys a few aspects of the global theory of wave equations. This material is structured around the contents of a minicourse given by the second author during the CMI/ETH Summer School on evolution equations during the Summer of 2008.
This short review is the result of a minicourse at the Sapienza University of Rome the author gave about the proof of the -theorem. We review the hard Lefschetz theorem for simplicial spheres, as well as the theory at its core: perturbations of maps, biased Poincaré pairings and a cobordism argument that relates the…
Teaches Dirac operators for geometry and topology.
problem Interactions between geometry and topology.
method Families of Dirac operators and index theorems.
result Applications to metrics of positive scalar curvature and the three-dimensional Weinstein conjecture.
Explains visual metrics on hyperbolic space boundaries.
problem Understanding the geometry of hyperbolic spaces.
method Construction of visual metrics, quasisymmetries, and invariants.
result Detailed examples and applications of Gromov's round trees.
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Survey of invariants for knotted 2-spheres in 4-space.
problem Characterizing knotted 2-spheres in 4-dimensional space.
method Algebraic topology of knot exterior, gauge theory, combinatorial methods.
result Details are scarce and new results inexistent.
This is an expanded version of the lecture notes for a minicourse that I gave at a summer school called "Advanced Course on Geometry and Dynamics of Integrable Systems" at CRM Barcelona, 9--14/September/2013. In this text we study the following aspects of integrable non-Hamiltonian systems: local and semi-local normal …
We show that every orientable 3-manifold is a classifying space BΓwhere Γis a groupoid of germs of homeomorphisms of R. This follows by showing that every orientable 3-manifold M admits a codimension one foliation F such that the holonomy cover of every leaf is contractible. The F we construct can be taken to be C^1 bu…
Lecture notes on group actions on injective spaces and Helly graphs.
problem Understanding group actions on specific metric spaces.
method Review of injective metric spaces and Helly graphs, elementary properties, constructions, and exercises.
result Presentation of various constructions of injective metric spaces and Helly graphs with interesting group actions.
This is a revision of some expository lecture notes written originally for a 5-hour minicourse on the intersection theory of punctured holomorphic curves and its applications in 3-dimensional contact topology. The main lectures are aimed primarily at students and require only a minimal background in holomorphic curve t…
The study compares lamplighter graphs up to quasi-isometry using coarse topology.
problem When do two lamplighter graphs have the same coarse geometry?
method Inspired by topology, the approach involves techniques to compare lamplighter graphs up to quasi-isometry.
result Efficient comparison methods for lamplighter graphs up to quasi-isometry.
An outsider's overview of Anosov flows in 3D.
problem Understanding Anosov flows in 3D and their interactions.
method Overview and discussion of main results and questions.
result Highlighting the interaction with topology and symplectic geometry.
Many physical systems are described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Determinism then requires the Cauchy problem to be well-posed. Even when the Cauchy problem is well-posed for generic Cauchy data, there may exist characteristic Cauchy data. Characteristics of PDEs play an important role both in Mathematics …