Thierry Aubin (auth.)9780387907048, 0387907041
This volume is intended to allow mathematicians and physicists, especially analysts, to learn about nonlinear problems which arise in Riemannian Geometry. Analysis on Riemannian manifolds is a field currently undergoing great development. More and more, analysis proves to be a very powerful means for solving geometrical problems. Conversely, geometry may help us to solve certain problems in analysis. There are several reasons why the topic is difficult and interesting. It is very large and almost unexplored. On the other hand, geometric problems often lead to limiting cases of known problems in analysis, sometimes there is even more than one approach, and the already existing theoretical studies are inadequate to solve them. Each problem has its own particular difficulties. Nevertheless there exist some standard methods which are useful and which we must know to apply them. One should not forget that our problems are motivated by geometry, and that a geometrical argument may simplify the problem under investigation. Examples of this kind are still too rare. This work is neither a systematic study of a mathematical field nor the presentation of a lot of theoretical knowledge. On the contrary, I do my best to limit the text to the essential knowledge. I define as few concepts as possible and give only basic theorems which are useful for our topic. But I hope that the reader will find this sufficient to solve other geometrical problems by analysis. |
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages i-xii
Riemannian Geometry….Pages 1-31
Sobolev Spaces….Pages 32-69
Background Material….Pages 70-100
Green’s Function for Riemannian Manifolds….Pages 101-114
The Methods….Pages 115-124
The Scalar Curvature….Pages 125-138
Complex Monge-Ampère Equation on Compact Kähler Manifolds….Pages 139-156
Monge-Ampère Equations….Pages 157-188
Back Matter….Pages 189-204 |
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