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Three viewpoints on the integral geometry of foliations
1999
We deal with three different problems of the multidimensional integral geometry of foliations. First, we establish asymptotic formulas for integrals of powers of curvature of foliations obtained by intersecting a foliation by affine planes. Then we prove an integral formula for surfaces of contact of an affine hyperplane with a foliation. Finally, we obtain a conformally invariant integral-geometric formula for a foliation in three-dimensional space.
Bounded geometry, growth and topology
2010
We characterize functions which are growth types of Riemannian manifolds of bounded geometry.
Euclidean geometry and physical space
2006
It takes a good deal of historical imagination to picture the kinds of debates that accompanied the slow process, which ultimately led to the acceptance of non-Euclidean geometries little more than a century ago. The difficulty stems mainly from our tendency to think of geometry as a branch of pure mathematics rather than as a science with deep empirical roots, the oldest natural science so to speak. For many of us, there is a natural tendency to think of geometry in idealized, Platonic terms. So to gain a sense of how late nineteenth-century authorities debated over the true geometry of physical space, it may help to remember the etymological roots of geometry: “geo” plus “metria” literall…