Geometry and Topology: III Latin American School of Mathematics Proceedings of the School held at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada CNPg Rio de Janeiro July 1976

José Adem, Kee Yuen Lam (auth.), Jacob Palis, Manfredo do Carmo (eds.)9780387083452, 0-387-08345-6

Table of contents :
Evaluation of some Maunder cohomology operations….Pages 1-31
Construction geometrique de certaines series discretes….Pages 32-55
The point spectrum of the adjoint of an automorphism of a vector bundle….Pages 56-67
Whitney duality and singularities of projections….Pages 68-81
Orbit preserving diffeomorphisms and the stability of Lie group actions and singular foliations….Pages 82-103
On minimal immersions with parallel normal curvature tensor….Pages 104-113
Circle bundles….Pages 114-131
A topology for the space of foliations….Pages 132-150
Stability of compact foliations….Pages 151-160
Secondary operations in K-theory and the generalized vector field problem….Pages 161-175
On holomorphic solutions of certain kind of pfaffian systems with singularities….Pages 176-190
Scattering problems in differential geometry….Pages 191-229
The connected components of Morse-Smale vector fields on two manifolds….Pages 230-251
Feuilletages En Cylindres….Pages 252-270
Mesure de Lebesgue et Nombre de Rotation….Pages 271-293
The Godbillon-Vey invariant of foliations by planes of T 3 ….Pages 294-307
On the construction of the trace in serre duality….Pages 308-318
Localization theories for groups and homotopy types….Pages 319-329
On hyperbolic attractors of codimension one….Pages 330-334
On Liénard’s equation….Pages 335-357
On the Weierstrass preparation theorem….Pages 358-360
Reduction of semilinear parabolic equations to finite dimensional C 1 flows….Pages 361-378
Axiom a for endomorphisms….Pages 379-388
Characterizations of AS diffeomorphisms….Pages 389-394
Structural stability of integrable differential forms….Pages 395-428
Accessibility of an optimum….Pages 429-440
The scattering problem for some particle systems on the line….Pages 441-463
Proof of a generalized from of a fixed point theorem due to G. D. Birkhoff….Pages 464-494
Some developments on stability and bifurcations of dynamical systems….Pages 495-509
Convexity and tightness of manifolds with boundary….Pages 510-541
Existence of brake orbits in Finsler mechanical systems….Pages 542-567
On the complex projective bundle construction….Pages 568-580
Symmetries, conservation laws and variational principles….Pages 581-604
Classification of generic quadratic vector fields with no limit cycles….Pages 605-640
The classifying ring of SL(2, C)….Pages 641-678
On the finite solvability of Plateau’s problem….Pages 679-695
The set of curves of uniqueness for Plateau’s problem has a dense interior….Pages 696-706
Geometric properties of generic differentiable manifolds….Pages 707-774
A catastrophe model for the stability of ships….Pages 775-827
Note on smoothing symplectic and volume preserving diffeomorphisms….Pages 828-854
A simple proof of a generalization of a theorem by C. L. Siegel….Pages 855-866