Introduction, Exemples -- Topologies sur les domaines de ?N -- Continuité par rapport au domaine -- Existence de formes optimales -- Dérivation par rapport au domaine -- Propriétés géométriques de l’optimum -- Relaxation, homogénéisation.Ce livre est une initiation aux approches modernes de l’optimisation mathématique de formes. Il s’appuie sur les seules connaissances de premiè…
Shilov Boundary for Normed Algebras -- BMO-Mappings in the Plane -- Harmonic Forms on Non-Orientable Surfaces -- Periodic Fatou Components and Singularities of the Inverse Function -- On the Normality of Topological Target Manifolds for Riemann-Hilbert Problems -- Geometric Aspects of Generalized Analytic Functions -- The Riemann-Hilbert Boundary Value Problem on a Cut Plane -- On the Logarithm…
Siegel Domains -- Homogeneous Siegel Domains -- Normal Siegel Domains -- Other Realizations -- Automorphism Group -- Classification of Square Domains -- Symmetric Bounded Domains -- Szegö Kernel and Poisson Kernel -- Homogeneous Bounded Domains.
Foundational Material -- De Rham Cohomology and Harmonic Differential Forms -- Parallel Transport, Connections, and Covariant Derivatives -- Geodesics and Jacobi Fields -- Symmetric Spaces and Kähler Manifolds -- Morse Theory and Floer Homology -- Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory -- Harmonic Maps.
to Projective Duality -- Actions with Finitely Many Orbits -- Local Calculations -- Projective Constructions -- Vector Bundles Methods -- Degree of the Dual Variety -- Varieties with Positive Defect -- Dual Varieties of Homogeneous Spaces -- Self-dual Varieties -- Singularities of Dual Varieties.Projective duality is a very classical notion naturally arising in various areas of mathematics, suc…
Three-Dimensional Differential Geometry -- Differential Geometry of Surfaces -- Applications to Three-Dimensional Elasticity in Curvilinear Coordinates -- Applications to Shell Theory.curvilinear coordinates. This treatment includes in particular a direct proof of the three-dimensional Korn inequality in curvilinear coordinates. The fourth and last chapter, which heavily relies on Chapter 2, be…
to Symmetric Spaces and Their Compactifications -- Compactifications of Symmetric and Locally Symmetric Spaces -- Restrictions of Unitary Representations of Real Reductive Groups.Semisimple Lie groups, and their algebraic analogues over fields other than the reals, are of fundamental importance in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics. Three independent, self-contained volumes, under the…
The Plancherel Theorem for a Reductive Symmetric Space -- The Paley—Wiener Theorem for a Reductive Symmetric Space -- The Plancherel Formula on Reductive Symmetric Spaces from the Point of View of the Schwartz Space.Semisimple Lie groups, and their algebraic analogues over fields other than the reals, are of fundamental importance in geometry, analysis, and mathematical physics. Three indepen…
Introduction -- 1. Preliminaries on Markov-Feller Operators -- 2. The KBBY Decomposition -- 3. Unique Ergodicity -- 4. Equicontinuity -- Bibliography -- Index.In this book invariant probabilities for a large class of discrete-time homogeneous Markov processes known as Feller processes are discussed. These Feller processes appear in the study of iterated function systems with probabilities, conv…
Parafree Groups -- The Finitary Andrews-Curtis Conjecture -- Cuts in Kähler Groups -- Algebraic Mapping-Class Groups of Orientable Surfaces with Boundaries -- Solved and Unsolved Problems Around One Group -- Cubature Formulas, Geometrical Designs, Reproducing Kernels, and Markov Operators -- Survey on Classifying Spaces for Families of Subgroups -- Are Unitarizable Groups Amenable? -- Probabil…