Nonsmooth Differential Geometry-An Approach Tailored for Spaces with Ricci Curvature Bounded from Below.
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- 9781470442668
- 516.3/6
- QA641 .G545 2017
Cover -- Title page -- Introduction -- Aim and key ideas -- Overview of the content -- Some open problems -- Chapter 1. The machinery of ^{ }(\mm)-normed modules -- 1.1. Assumptions and notation -- 1.2. Basic definitions and properties -- 1.3. Alteration of the integrability -- 1.4. Local dimension -- 1.5. Tensor and exterior products of Hilbert modules -- 1.6. Pullback -- Chapter 2. First order differential structure of general metric measure spaces -- 2.1. Preliminaries: Sobolev functions on metric measure spaces -- 2.2. Cotangent module -- 2.2.1. The construction -- 2.2.2. Differential of a Sobolev function -- 2.3. Tangent module -- 2.3.1. Tangent vector fields and derivations -- 2.3.2. On the duality between differentials and gradients -- 2.3.3. Divergence -- 2.3.4. Infinitesimally Hilbertian spaces -- 2.3.5. In which sense the norm on the tangent space induces the distance -- 2.4. Maps of bounded deformation -- 2.5. Some comments -- Chapter 3. Second order differential structureof \RCD( ,∞) spaces -- 3.1. Preliminaries: \RCD( ,∞) spaces -- 3.2. Test objects and some notation -- 3.3. Hessian -- 3.3.1. The Sobolev space ^{2,2}(\X) -- 3.3.2. Why there are many ^{2,2} functions -- 3.3.3. Calculus rules -- 3.3.3.1. Some auxiliary Sobolev spaces -- 3.3.3.2. Statement and proofs of calculus rules -- 3.4. Covariant derivative -- 3.4.1. The Sobolev space ^{1,2}_{ }( \X) -- 3.4.2. Calculus rules -- 3.4.3. Second order differentiation formula -- 3.4.4. Connection Laplacian and heat flow of vector fields -- 3.5. Exterior derivative -- 3.5.1. The Sobolev space ^{1,2}_{}(Λ^{ } *\X) -- 3.5.2. de Rham cohomology and Hodge theorem -- 3.6. Ricci curvature -- Bibliography -- Back Cover.
The author discusses in which sense general metric measure spaces possess a first order differential structure. Building on this, spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below a second order calculus can be developed, permitting the author to define Hessian, covariant/exterior derivatives and Ricci curvature.
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