Tight and Taut Submanifolds

Klappentext A comprehensive 1997 survey of the field of tight and taut submanifolds. Zusammenfassung This 1997 book contains six in-depth articles on various aspects of the field of tight and taut submanifolds and concludes with an extensive bibliography of the entire field. The first paper is an unfinished but insightful survey of the field of tight immersions and maps by Nicolaas H. Kuiper. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Remembering Nicolaas Kuiper Thomas F. Banchoff; 2. Roever lectures in geometry Nicolaas H. Kuiper; 3. Smooth and polyhedral tight immersions Thomas F. Banchoff; 4. Tightness for smooth and polyhedral immersions of the real projective plane with one handle Davide P. Cervone; 5. Taut and Dupin submanifolds Thomas E. Cecil; 6. Taut immersions into complete Riemannian manifolds Chuu-Lian Terng and Gudlaugur Thorbergsson; 7. Null-homotopic embedded spheres of codimension one Daniel Ruberman; 8. Real hypersurfaces in complex space forms Ross Niebergall and Patrick Ryan; 9. Biography on tight, taut and isoparametric submanifolds Wolfgang Kühnel and Thomas E. Cecil; List of publications by Nicolaas H. Kuiper; Dissertations of N. H. Juiper's doctoral students.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Thomas E. (College of the Holy Cross Cecil, Thomas E. Chern Cecil
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas E. Cecil (Editore), Shiing-Shen Chern (Editore), Silvio Levy (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.11.1997
• EAN: 9780521620475
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62047-5
• Pagine: 368
• Serie: Mathematical Sciences Research
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Geometria