Encounter with a geometer. II
Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Pseudoholomorphic curves (32Q65) History of differential geometry (53-03) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Frobenius manifolds (53D45) History of manifolds and cell complexes (57-03)
This is the second part [for Part I, see ibid. 47, No. 2, 183-194 (2000; Zbl 1030.53002)] of an expository article devoted to M. Gromov's work and its influence in contemporary mathematics. The author discusses M. Gromov's revolutionary results and ideas in Riemannian geometry. Topics include topological restrictions for positively curved manifolds (a universal upper bound for the Betti numbers), negatively curved manifolds (finiteness results, pinching, arithmeticity), positive scalar curvature (\(K\)-area), Gromov's program of synthetic Riemannian geometry, manifolds with Ricci curvature bounded from below, collapse, the spectrum of Riemannian manifolds, periodic geodesics, Kähler geometry. A substantial part of the article is devoted to Gromov's program of building a ``friendly environment for treating asymptotics of many interesting spaces of configurations and maps. This is the space of metric-measure spaces, mm-spaces, endowed with the Gromov distance. The key notion of observable diameter and its estimates based on a concentration phenomenon are discussed. The article is concluded by quoting M. Gromov on his mathematical perception and process of discovery.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1183331
- Metric structures for Riemannian and non-Riemannian spaces. Transl. from the French by Sean Michael Bates. With appendices by M. Katz, P. Pansu, and S. Semmes. Edited by J. LaFontaine and P. Pansu
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1150133
- Encounter with a geometer. I
- Metric measure geometry. Gromov's theory of convergence and concentration of metrics and measures
- Exponential concentration in terms of Gromov-Ledoux's expansion coefficients on a metric measure space and its upper diameter bound satisfying volume doubling
- Discrete Ricci curvatures for directed networks
- Encounter with a geometer. I
- Rational mechanics and science rationnelle unique
- Forman curvature for complex networks
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1192473 (Why is no real title available?)
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1150133 (Why is no real title available?)
- Some properties of Gromov-Hausdorff distances
- The Geometer Dog Who Did Not Know Calculus
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7706830 (Why is no real title available?)
- On fundamental groups of quotient spaces
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