scholarly journals On the ${\rm PL}$ noninvariance of the span of a smooth manifold

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 575-575
Author(s):  
Joseph Roitberg
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2011 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-416
Author(s):  
Mihai Anastasiei

Banach Lie AlgebroidsFirst, we extend the notion of second order differential equations (SODE) on a smooth manifold to anchored Banach vector bundles. Then we define the Banach Lie algebroids as Lie algebroids structures modeled on anchored Banach vector bundles and prove that they form a category.


Synthese ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Huggett ◽  
Fedele Lizzi ◽  
Tushar Menon

AbstractNoncommutative geometries generalize standard smooth geometries, parametrizing the noncommutativity of dimensions with a fundamental quantity with the dimensions of area. The question arises then of whether the concept of a region smaller than the scale—and ultimately the concept of a point—makes sense in such a theory. We argue that it does not, in two interrelated ways. In the context of Connes’ spectral triple approach, we show that arbitrarily small regions are not definable in the formal sense. While in the scalar field Moyal–Weyl approach, we show that they cannot be given an operational definition. We conclude that points do not exist in such geometries. We therefore investigate (a) the metaphysics of such a geometry, and (b) how the appearance of smooth manifold might be recovered as an approximation to a fundamental noncommutative geometry.


2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (55) ◽  
pp. 3479-3501 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Atindogbe ◽  
J.-P. Ezin ◽  
Joël Tossa

Let(M,g)be a smooth manifoldMendowed with a metricg. A large class of differential operators in differential geometry is intrinsically defined by means of the dual metricg∗on the dual bundleTM∗of 1-forms onM. If the metricgis (semi)-Riemannian, the metricg∗is just the inverse ofg. This paper studies the definition of the above-mentioned geometric differential operators in the case of manifolds endowed with degenerate metrics for whichg∗is not defined. We apply the theoretical results to Laplacian-type operator on a lightlike hypersurface to deduce a Takahashi-like theorem (Takahashi (1966)) for lightlike hypersurfaces in Lorentzian spaceℝ1n+2.


2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Epstein ◽  
Jędrzej Śniatycki
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1999 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Parsian ◽  
A. Shafei Deh Abad

For a real Hilbert space(H,〈,〉), a subspaceL⊂H⊕His said to be a Dirac structure onHif it is maximally isotropic with respect to the pairing〈(x,y),(x′,y′)〉+=(1/2)(〈x,y′〉+〈x′,y〉). By investigating some basic properties of these structures, it is shown that Dirac structures onHare in one-to-one correspondence with isometries onH, and, any two Dirac structures are isometric. It is, also, proved that any Dirac structure on a smooth manifold in the sense of [1] yields a Dirac structure on some Hilbert space. The graph of any densely defined skew symmetric linear operator on a Hilbert space is, also, shown to be a Dirac structure. For a Dirac structureLonH, everyz∈His uniquely decomposed asz=p1(l)+p2(l)for somel∈L, wherep1andp2are projections. Whenp1(L)is closed, for any Hilbert subspaceW⊂H, an induced Dirac structure onWis introduced. The latter concept has also been generalized.


1993 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-726
Author(s):  
Julian Edward

AbstractThe Neumann operator is an operator on the boundary of a smooth manifold which maps the boundary value of a harmonic function to its normal derivative. The spectrum of the Neumann operator is studied on the curves bounding a family of Riemann surfaces. The Neumann operator is shown to be isospectral to a direct sum of symmetric Jacobi matrices, each acting on l2(ℤ). The Jacobi matrices are shown to be isospectral to generators of bilateral, linear birth-death processes. Using the connection between Jacobi matrices and continued fractions, it is shown that the eigenvalues of the Neumann operator must solve a certain equation involving hypergeometric functions. Study of the equation yields uniform bounds on the eigenvalues and also the asymptotics of the eigenvalues as the curves degenerate into a wedge of circles.


1972 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-206
Author(s):  
H. G. Helfenstein

A linear connexion ∇ on a smooth manifold M with vanishing torsion and curvature is called flat. It is well known that such a connexion need not be the Levi-Civita connexion of a Riemannian (nor pseudo-Riemannian) structure (cf. [1]).The following example with M homeomorphic to a cylinder is particularly simple. Using polar coordinates the punctured plane M=R2\{0} is covered by a smooth atlas with two charts


Axioms ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Yoshihiro Sugimoto

In this paper, we prove that on any contact manifold ( M , ξ ) there exists an arbitrary C ∞ -small contactomorphism which does not admit a square root. In particular, there exists an arbitrary C ∞ -small contactomorphism which is not “autonomous”. This paper is the first step to study the topology of C o n t 0 ( M , ξ ) ∖ Aut ( M , ξ ) . As an application, we also prove a similar result for the diffeomorphism group Diff ( M ) for any smooth manifold M.


2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivier Vivolo

AbstractConsider an isospectral manifold formed by matrices M ∈ glr(ℂ)[x] with a fixed leading term. The description of such a manifold is well known in the case of a diagonal leading term with different eigenvalues. On the other hand, there are many important systems where this term has multiple eigenvalues. One approach is to impose conditions in the sub-leading term. The result is that the isospectral set is a smooth manifold, bi-holomorphic to a Zariski open subset of the generalized Jacobian of a singular curve.


2015 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
ULRIKE TILLMANN

AbstractFor any smooth compact manifold W with boundary of dimension of at least two we prove that the classifying spaces of its group of diffeomorphisms which fix a set of k points or k embedded disks (up to permutation) satisfy homology stability. The same is true for so-called symmetric diffeomorphisms of W connected sum with k copies of an arbitrary compact smooth manifold Q of the same dimension. The analogues for mapping class groups as well as other generalisations will also be proved.


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