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Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 1353)

Part of the book sub series: Nankai Institute of Mathematics, Tianjin, P.R. China (2803)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
  2. Preliminaries

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 3-24
  3. Local geometry of submanifolds

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 25-42
  4. Weingarten Surfaces in three dimensional space forms

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 43-64
  5. Focal points

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 65-71
  6. Transformation groups

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 72-105
  7. Isoparametric submanifolds

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 106-139
  8. Proper Fredholm submanifolds in Hilbert spaces

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 140-149
  9. Topology of isoparametric submanifolds

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 150-177
  10. Elementary critical point theory

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 181-222
  11. Advanced critical point theory

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 223-232
  12. The calculus of variations

    • Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng
    Pages 233-259
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 260-271

Keywords

  • Calculus of Variations
  • Hilbert space
  • geometry
  • manifold
  • topology

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry

  • Authors: Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Mathematics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0087442

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-50399-6Published: 09 November 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-45996-5Published: 14 November 2006

  • Series ISSN: 0075-8434

  • Series E-ISSN: 1617-9692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 280

  • Topics: Geometry, Topology, Mathematics Education

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