Preface |
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1 Fundamental Materials of Riemannian Geometry |
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1 | (20) |
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1 | (1) |
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1 | (4) |
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1 | (2) |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (5) |
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1.3.1 Levi-Civita connection |
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5 | (2) |
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7 | (1) |
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8 | (2) |
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1.4 Curvature Tensor Fields |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (1) |
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1.6 Divergence of Vector Fields and the Laplacian |
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12 | (3) |
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1.6.1 Divergences of vector fields, gradient vector fields and the Laplacian |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (1) |
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1.7 The Laplacian for Differential Forms |
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15 | (2) |
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1.8 The First and Second Variation Formulas of the Lengths of Curves |
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17 | (4) |
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2 The Space of Riemannian Metrics, and Continuity of the Eigenvalues |
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21 | (32) |
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21 | (1) |
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21 | (7) |
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2.2.1 Eigenvalues of real symmetric matrices |
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21 | (7) |
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2.3 The Space of Riemannian Metrics |
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28 | (5) |
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2.4 Continuity of the Eigenvalues and Upper Semi-continuity of Their Multiplicities |
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33 | (6) |
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2.5 Generic Properties of the Eigenvalues |
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39 | (14) |
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3 Cheeger and Yau Estimates on the Minimum Positive Eigenvalue |
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53 | (30) |
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53 | (1) |
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3.2 Main Results of This Chapter |
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54 | (3) |
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3.2.1 Cheeger's estimate for positive minimum eigenvalue λ2 |
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54 | (1) |
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3.2.2 Yau's estimate of the positive minimum eigenvalue λ2 |
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54 | (3) |
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57 | (5) |
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3.4 Proofs of Theorems 3.4, 3.5 and Corollary 3.6 |
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62 | (6) |
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68 | (5) |
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3.6 Jacobi Fields and the Comparison Theorem |
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73 | (10) |
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4 The Estimations of the kth Eigenvalue and Lichnerowicz-Obata's Theorem |
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83 | (36) |
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83 | (1) |
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4.2 Nodal Domain Theorem Due to R. Courant |
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83 | (12) |
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4.2.1 The boundary problems of the Laplacian |
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84 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Nodal domain theorem of R. Courant |
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85 | (10) |
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4.3 The Upper Estimates of the kth Eigenvalues |
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95 | (12) |
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4.4 Lichnerowicz-Obata's Theorem |
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107 | (12) |
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5 The Payne, Polya and Weinberger Type Inequalities for the Dirichlet Eigenvalues |
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119 | (24) |
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119 | (1) |
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5.2 Main Results of This Chapter |
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119 | (2) |
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5.3 Preliminary L2-estimates |
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121 | (8) |
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5.4 The Theorem of Cheng and Yang, and Its Corollary |
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129 | (4) |
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5.5 Fundamental Facts on Immersions for Theorem 5.6 |
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133 | (10) |
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5.5.1 Isometric immersions and the gradient vector fields |
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133 | (1) |
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5.5.2 Isometric immersion and connections |
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134 | (1) |
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5.5.3 Some lemma on isometric immersion and the Laplacian |
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135 | (4) |
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5.5.4 Proof of Theorem 5.6 |
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139 | (4) |
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6 The Heat Equation and the Set of Lengths of Closed Geodesics |
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143 | (86) |
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143 | (1) |
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6.2 The Heat Equation on a One-dimensional Circle |
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144 | (4) |
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6.3 Preparation on the Morse Theory |
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148 | (14) |
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6.3.1 Non-degenerate critical submanifolds of Hilbert manifolds |
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148 | (4) |
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152 | (5) |
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6.3.3 Finite dimensional approximations to Ω(M) |
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157 | (5) |
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6.4 Fundamental Solution of Complex Heat Equation |
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162 | (15) |
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6.5 The Pseudo Fourier Transform |
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177 | (9) |
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186 | (2) |
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6.7 Several Properties of the Fundamental Solution of the Complex Heat Equation |
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188 | (8) |
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6.8 Mountain Path Method (Stationary Phase Method) |
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196 | (11) |
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207 | (16) |
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6.10 Proof of the Main Theorem 6.23 |
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223 | (6) |
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7 Negative Curvature Manifolds and the Spectral Rigidity Theorem |
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229 | (62) |
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229 | (1) |
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7.2 Spectral Rigidity Theorem Due to Guillemin and Kazhdan |
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229 | (2) |
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7.3 Outline of the Proof of a Spectral Rigidity |
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231 | (3) |
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7.4 The Geodesic Flow Vector Fields |
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234 | (9) |
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7.5 Proof of the Theorem of Livcic |
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243 | (9) |
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7.6 The Space of Harmonic Polynomials, Representation Theory of the Orthogonal Group |
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252 | (11) |
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7.7 The Elliptic Differential Operator on the Space of Symmetric Tensor Fields |
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263 | (10) |
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7.8 Proof of the Main Theorem 7.10 |
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273 | (6) |
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7.9 Proofs of the Remaining Three Lemmas |
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279 | (6) |
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7.10 Proof of Spectral Rigidity (Theorem 7.1) |
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285 | (6) |
Bibliography |
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291 | (4) |
Index |
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