scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1170956

MaRDI QIDQ4397156zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yves Colin de Verdière

Publication date 7 July 1998

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/114253

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global Riemannian geometry, including pinching (53C20) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Relations of PDEs with special manifold structures (Riemannian, Finsler, etc.) (58J60)

Review text

A lower semicontinuous metric on a manifold \(M\) assigns to each tangent space \(T_x\) in \(M\), of a metric having the form \(g(y)=\|y\|\) for \(y\in F\), \(g(y)= +\infty\) for \(y\notin F\), where \(F\) is a subspace of \(T_x\) and \(|\cdot|\) an inner product on \(F\), and everything varies lower semicontinuously in \(x\). The author shows that any two points on a lower semicontinuous manifold are joined by a geodesic which has minimal length. The analogue of the Laplacian for such metrics is also discussed. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0825.00039].

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