Mean Curvature Flow and Isoperimetric Inequalities - Couverture souple

Ritoré, Manuel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 303460212X ISBN 13 : 9783034602129

Editeur : Birkhäuser, 2009

Synopsis

Geometric flows have many applications in physics and geometry, while isoperimetric inequalities can help in treating several aspects of convergence of these flows. Based on a series of lectures given by the authors, the material here deals with both subjects.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

* Contains an expanded version of the lectures delivered by the authors at the CRM Barcelona in March 2008 * The first text serves as an introduction to the work of Huisken-Sinestrari about the formation of singularities and surgery of the mean curvature * The second text presents recent developments on the field of isoperimetric inequalities, mostly based on the use of geometric flows, as well as applications of isoperimetric inequalities to hyperbolic geometry Geometric flows have many applications in physics and geometry. The mean curvature flow occurs in the description of the interface evolution in certain physical models. This is related to the property that such a flow is the gradient flow of the area functional and therefore appears naturally in problems where a surface energy is minimized. The mean curvature flow also has many geometric applications, in analogy with the Ricci flow of metrics on abstract riemannian manifolds. One can use this flow as a tool to obtain classification results for surfaces satisfying certain curvature conditions, as well as to construct minimal surfaces. Geometric flows, obtained from solutions of geometric parabolic equations, can be considered as an alternative tool to prove isoperimetric inequalities. On the other hand, isoperimetric inequalities can help in treating several aspects of convergence of these flows. Isoperimetric inequalities have many applications in other fields of geometry, like hyperbolic manifolds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Birkhäuser
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 303460212X
• ISBN 13: 9783034602129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 124
• Éditeur: Miquel Vicente, Porti Joan
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