This book contains two surveys on modern research into non-regular Riemannian geometry. Its authors, Reshetnyak, Berestovskij, and Nikolaev are well-known researchers in this area. They treat two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of bounded curvature and metric spaces whose curvature lies between two given constants. Both these topics have not been treated in monograph form. Hence the book will be immensely useful to graduate students and researchers in geometry, in particular Riemannian geometry.
I. Two-Dimensional Manifolds of Bounded Curvature.- II. Multidimensional Generalized Riemannian Spaces.- Author Index.
This book contains two surveys on modern research into non-regular Riemannian geometry, carried out mostly by Russian mathematicians. Coverage examines two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of bounded curvature and metric spaces whose curvature lies between two given constants.
Dieser Band der EMS enthält zwei Beiträge, die einen Überblick über moderne Forschungsergebnisse im Gebiet der nichtregulären Riemannschen Geometrie geben. Die drei Autoren, Reshetnayak, Berestrovskij und Nikolaev sind bekannte Forscher in diesem Gebiet. Der erste Artikel behandelt zweidimensionale Riemannsche Mannigfaltigkeiten beschränkter Krümmung, und der zweite ist der Theorie jener metrischen Räume gewidmet, deren Krümmung zwischen zwei vorgegebenen Konstanten liegt. Beide Themen sind noch nie in der Form einer Monographie beschrieben worden. Daher wird das Buch für Forscher und Studenten höherer Semester, die in der Geometrie und insbesondere der Riemannschen Geometrie arbeiten, von großem Nutzen sein.
The book contains a survey of research on non-regular Riemannian geome try, carried out mainly by Soviet authors. The beginning of this direction oc curred in the works of A. D. Aleksandrov on the intrinsic geometry of convex surfaces. For an arbitrary surface F, as is known, all those concepts that can be defined and facts that can be established by measuring the lengths of curves on the surface relate to intrinsic geometry. In the case considered in differential is defined by specifying its first geometry the intrinsic geometry of a surface fundamental form. If the surface F is non-regular, then instead of this form it is convenient to use the metric PF' defined as follows. For arbitrary points X, Y E F, PF(X, Y) is the greatest lower bound of the lengths of curves on the surface F joining the points X and Y. Specification of the metric PF uniquely determines the lengths of curves on the surface, and hence its intrinsic geometry. According to what we have said, the main object of research then appears as a metric space such that any two points of it can be joined by a curve of finite length, and the distance between them is equal to the greatest lower bound of the lengths of such curves. Spaces satisfying this condition are called spaces with intrinsic metric. Next we introduce metric spaces with intrinsic metric satisfying in one form or another the condition that the curvature is bounded.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I. Two-Dimensional Manifolds of Bounded Curvature.- II. Multidimensional Generalized Riemannian Spaces.- Author Index.
Klappentext
This book contains two surveys on modern research into non-regular Riemannian geometry, carried out mostly by Russian mathematicians. Coverage examines two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of bounded curvature and metric spaces whose curvature lies between two given constants. This book will be immensely useful to graduate students and researchers in geometry, in particular Riemannian geometry.
This book contains two surveys on modern research into non-regular Riemannian geometry. Its authors, Reshetnyak, Berestovskij, and Nikolaev are well-known researchers in this area. They treat two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds of bounded curvature and metric spaces whose curvature lies between two given constants. Both these topics have not been treated in monograph form. Hence the book will be immensely useful to graduate students and researchers in geometry, in particular Riemannian geometry.
