Geometry and Topology of Riemannian Manifolds

• Grant number: 99/02684-5
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Duration: August 01, 1999 - September 30, 2004
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Mathematics - Geometry and Topology
• Principal Investigator: Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito
• Grantee: Fabiano Gustavo Braga Brito
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Alcibiades Rigas ; Antonio Carlos Asperti ; Francesco Mercuri
• Associated grant(s): 04/01059-0 - Juan Carlos Alvarez-Paiva | Polytechnic University - Estados Unidos, AV.EXT; 02/10725-8 - Maria Helena Noronha | California State University Northridge - Estados Unidos, AV.EXT

Abstract

A central theme in Differential Geometry is the study of relations between pointwise invariants (Linear Algebra), local invariant (Analysis) and global invariants (Topology) of a Riemannian manifold. This study is done, in general, for certain classes of Riemannian manifolds. Our research is concerned manely with the following ones: - Submanifolds of a space of constant curvature with prescribed conditions on the codimension, second fundamental form, curvatures, etc. - Lie groups, symmetric spaces and, in general, principal bundles: We study the existence of special metrics, geometric realization of topological invariants as homotopy classes and special submanifolds. - Submanifolds associated to minimizers of geometric variational problems, envolving functionals like volume, energy, isoperimetric quotient, associated to maps between manifolds. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

BRITO, FABIANO G. B.; CHACON, PABLO M.. ENERGY OF GLOBAL FRAMES. JOURNAL OF THE AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY, v. 84, n. 2, p. 155-162, APR 2008. (99/02684-5)

BRITO‚ F.G.B.; CHACÓN‚ P.M.. A topological minorization for the volume of vector fields on 5-manifolds. ARCHIV DER MATHEMATIK, v. 85, n. 3, p. 283-292, 2005. (99/02684-5)

BRITO‚ F.; JOHNSON‚ D.L.. Volume-minimizing foliations on spheres. Geometriae Dedicata, v. 109, n. 1, p. 253-267, 2004. (99/02684-5)

BRITO‚ F.B.; CHACÓN‚ P.M.; NAVEIRA‚ AM. On the volume of unit vector fields on spaces of constant sectional curvature. COMMENTARII MATHEMATICI HELVETICI, v. 79, n. 2, p. 300-316, 2004. (99/02684-5)

BRITO, FABIANO G. B.; CHACON, PABLO M.; JOHNSON, DAVID L.. UNIT VECTOR FIELDS ON ANTIPODALLY PUNCTURED SPHERES: BIG INDEX, BIG VOLUME. BULLETIN DE LA SOCIETE MATHEMATIQUE DE FRANCE, v. 136, n. 1, p. 147-157, 2008. (99/02684-5)