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Contents:Affine Bibliography 1998 (T Binder et al.)Contact Metric R-Harmonic Manifolds (K Arslan & C Murathan)Local Classification of Centroaffine Tchebychev Surfaces with Constant Curvature Metric (T Binder)Hypersurfaces in Space Forms with Some Constant Curvature Functions (F Brito et al.)Some Relations Between a Submanifold and Its Focal Set (S Carter & A West)On Manifolds of Pseudosymmetric Type (F Defever et al.)Hypersurfaces with Pseudosymmetric Weyl Tensor in Conformally Flat Manifolds (R Deszcz et al.)Least-Squares Geometrical Fitting and Minimising Functions on Submanifolds (F Dillen et al.)Cubic Forms Generated by Functions on Projectively Flat Spaces (J Leder)Distinguished Submanifolds of a Sasakian Manifold (I Mihai)On the Curvature of Left Invariant Locally Conformally Para-Kählerian Metrics (Z Olszak)Remarks on Affine Variations on the Ellipsoid (M Wiehe)Dirac's Equation, Schrödinger's Equation and the Geometry of Surfaces (T J Willmore)and other papers Readership: Researchers doing differential geometry and topology. Keywords:Proceedings;Geometry;Topology;Valenciennes (France);Lyon (France);Leuven (Belgium);Dedication

The first two chapters of this frequently cited reference provide background material in Riemannian geometry and the theory of submanifolds. Subsequent chapters explore minimal submanifolds, submanifolds with parallel mean curvature vector, conformally flat manifolds, and umbilical manifolds. The final chapter discusses geometric inequalities of submanifolds, results in Morse theory and their applications, and total mean curvature of a submanifold. Suitable for graduate students and mathematicians in the area of classical and modern differential geometries, the treatment is largely self-contained. Problems sets conclude each chapter, and an extensive bibliography provides background for students wishing to conduct further research in this area. This new edition includes the author's corrections.

This book presents many of the main developments of the past two decades in the study of real submanifolds in complex space, providing crucial background material for researchers and advanced graduate students. The techniques in this area borrow from real and complex analysis and partial differential equations, as well as from differential, algebraic, and analytical geometry. In turn, these latter areas have been enriched over the years by the study of problems in several complex variables addressed here. The authors, M. Salah Baouendi, Peter Ebenfelt, and Linda Preiss Rothschild, include extensive preliminary material to make the book accessible to nonspecialists. One of the most important topics that the authors address here is the holomorphic extension of functions and mappings that satisfy the tangential Cauchy-Riemann equations on real submanifolds. They present the main results in this area with a novel and self-contained approach. The book also devotes considerable attention to the study of holomorphic mappings between real submanifolds, and proves finite determination of such mappings by their jets under some optimal assumptions. The authors also give a thorough comparison of the various nondegeneracy conditions for manifolds and mappings and present new geometric interpretations of these conditions. Throughout the book, Cauchy-Riemann vector fields and their orbits play a central role and are presented in a setting that is both general and elementary.

This book provides an introduction to topology, differential topology, and differential geometry. It is based on manuscripts refined through use in a variety of lecture courses. The first chapter covers elementary results and concepts from point-set topology. An exception is the Jordan Curve Theorem, which is proved for polygonal paths and is intended to give students a first glimpse into the nature of deeper topological problems. The second chapter of the book introduces manifolds and Lie groups, and examines a wide assortment of examples. Further discussion explores tangent bundles, vector bundles, differentials, vector fields, and Lie brackets of vector fields. This discussion is deepened and expanded in the third chapter, which introduces the de Rham cohomology and the oriented integral and gives proofs of the Brouwer Fixed-Point Theorem, the Jordan-Brouwer Separation Theorem, and Stokes's integral formula. The fourth and final chapter is devoted to the fundamentals of differential geometry and traces the development of ideas from curves to submanifolds of Euclidean spaces. Along the way, the book discusses connections and curvature--the central concepts of differential geometry. The discussion culminates with the Gauß equations and the version of Gauß's theorema egregium for submanifolds of arbitrary dimension and codimension. This book is primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates in mathematics and physics and is intended as the template for a one- or two-semester bachelor's course.