Constructing monotone homotopies and sweepouts

DOI10.4310/JDG/1635368350MaRDI QIDQ2073264zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Erin W. Chambers, Gregory R. Chambers, Arnaud de Mesmay, Tim Ophelders, Regina Rotman

Publication date 1 February 2022

Published in Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06175, https://projecteuclid.org/journals/journal-of-differential-geometry/volume-119/issue-3/Constructing-monotone-homotopies-and-sweepouts/10.4310/jdg/1635368350.full

zbMATH Keywords

monotone homotopiesRiemannian \(2\)-spheresRiemannian disc

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Homotopy groups of spheres (55Q40)

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