Preface to the first edition, 2003 |
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Preface to the second edition, 2020 |
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1 Distance Geometric Analysis on Manifolds |
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1 Appetizer and Introduction |
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2 The Comparison Setting and Preliminaries |
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3 Analysis of Riemannian Distance Functions |
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4 Analysis of Lorentzian Distance Functions |
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5 Concerning the Riemannian Setting and Notation |
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6 Green's Formulae and the Co-area Formula |
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7 The First Dirichlet Eigenvalue Comparison Theorem |
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8 Isoperimetric Relations |
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23 | (1) |
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9 A Consequence of the Co-area Formula |
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23 | (1) |
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10 The Fundamental Differential Equation |
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24 | (1) |
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11 Isoperimetric Comparison |
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25 | (4) |
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12 Mean Exit Times and Moment Spectra |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (5) |
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37 | (5) |
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15 The Kelvin-Nevanlinna-Royden Criteria for Transience |
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42 | (2) |
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16 Surfaces of Revolution |
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44 | (3) |
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47 | (2) |
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18 Answering the Questions in the Appetizer |
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49 | (2) |
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19 Sufficient Conditions for Parabolicity and Hyperbolicity |
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51 | (3) |
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20 Hyperbolicity of Spacelike Hypersurfaces |
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21 Weighted Riemannian Manifolds |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (1) |
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23 Weighted Rotationally Symmetric Spaces and the Ahlfors Criterion for Weighted Parabolicity |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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25 Analysis of Restricted Distance Functions in Weighted Submanifolds |
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61 | (2) |
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26 Extrinsic Criteria for Weighted Parabolicity |
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63 | (3) |
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27 The Grigor'yan-Fernandez Criterion for Weighted Hyperbolicity |
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66 | (2) |
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68 | (3) |
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29 Scherk's Graph is Transient |
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71 | (3) |
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2 The Dirac Operator in Geometry and Physics |
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Foreword to the Second Edition |
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1 Spinors and the Dirac Operator |
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1.1 Introduction to Spinors |
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84 | (4) |
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88 | (1) |
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1.3 The Lichnerowicz Formula |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (13) |
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92 | (3) |
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2.2 The Fundamental Estimate in Terms of Scalar Curvature |
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95 | (6) |
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2.3 Connections with Symplectic Invariants |
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101 | (1) |
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2.4 The Vafa-Witten Inequality |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (10) |
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3.1 Description of Results |
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105 | (4) |
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3.2 Main Ideas behind the Proofs |
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3.3 Some Mathematical Aspects of the AdS/CFT Correspondence |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (3) |
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4.1 Scalar curvature on the hemisphere |
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4.2 Gromov's work on scalar curvature |
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4.3 Some speculations and musings |
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References |
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