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Author International Conference "Curvature in Geometry" (2003 : Lecce, Italy)

Title Complex, contact, and symmetric manifolds : in honor of L. Vanhecke / Oldřich Kowalski, Emilio Musso, Domenico Perrone, editors
Published Boston : Birkhäuser, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Progress in mathematics ; v. 234
Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 234.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Authors' Addresses -- List of Participants -- D.E. Blair: Curvature of Contact Metric Manifolds -- E. Boeckx: A case for curvature: the unit tangent bundle -- A.A. Borisenko: Convex hypersurfaces in Hadamard manifolds -- G. Calvaruso: Contact metric geometry of the unit tangent sphere bundle -- V. Cortés and L. Schäfer: Topological-antitopological fusion equations, pluriharmonic maps and special Kähler manifolds -- P. de Bartolomeis: Z2 and Z-Deformation Theory for Holomorphic and Symplectic Manifolds -- J.C. Díaz-Ramos, E. García-Río and L. Hervella: Total scalar curvatures of geodesic spheres and of boundaries of geodesic disks -- M. Djoric: Commutative condition on the second fundamental form of CR submanifolds of maximal CR dimension of a Kähler manifold -- C. Dunn and P.B. Gilkey: Curvature homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian manifolds which are not locally homogeneous -- M. Fernández and V. Muñoz: The Geography of Non-formal Manifolds -- A. Fujiki and M. Pontecorvo: On Hermitian geometry of complex surfaces -- O. Gil-Medrano: Unit vector fields that are critical points of the volume and of the energy: characterization and examples -- O. Kowalski and Z. Vlášek: On 3-dimensional Riemannian manifolds with prescribed Ricci eigenvalues -- A.M. Naveira: Two problems in real and complex integral geometry -- T. Oguro and K. Sekigawa: Notes on the Goldberg conjecture in dimension four -- C.-L. Terng and E. Wang: Curved flats, exterior differential systems, and conservation laws -- K. Tsukada: Symmetric submanifolds of Riemannian symmetric spaces and symmetric R-spaces -- J.A. Wolf: Complex forms of Quaternionic Symmetric Spaces
Summary "This volume contains research and survey articles by well-known and respected mathematicians on differential geometry and topology that have been collected and dedicated in honor of Lieven Vanhecke, as a tribute to his contributions to these fields."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Manifolds (Mathematics)
Riemannian manifolds.
Geometry, Differential.
Differential topology.
Geometry.
geometry.
MATHEMATICS -- Geometry -- General.
Geometry, Differential.
Differential topology.
Variétés (Mathématiques) .
Riemann, Variétés de.
Géométrie différentielle.
Topologie différentielle.
Manifolds (Mathematics)
Riemannian manifolds.
Variedades riemannianas
Conjuntos (Topología)
Differential topology
Geometry, Differential
Manifolds (Mathematics)
Riemannian manifolds
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Festschriften
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Vanhecke, L.
Kowalski, Oldřich, 1936-
Musso, Emilio.
Perrone, Domenico, 1949-
LC no. 2004062288
ISBN 0817638504
9780817638504
9780817644246
0817644245