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Difference between parallel transport and ambient projection

This is false as stated. Take a surface of revolution generated by $(r(t),z(t))$. I claim I can choose the curve so that there are pieces that look like $(e^{-j},t)$ for $j$ large. The point is that i …
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Converse to Hopf degree theorem

Below, I mean smooth oriented closed connected manifolds and smooth maps (but am happy to hear about the topological category, or unoriented manifolds, etc instead). Say that $X^n$ has the Hopf proper …
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Theory of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as level sets

Is there a book that treats the classical theory of surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$ from the point of view of level sets of a function? I seem to remember someone telling me that such a book exists, but I …
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Poincare's argument for maximizing the Coulomb energy

For $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^3$ a region with $|\Omega| = |B_1|$, let $$ C(\Omega) = \int_\Omega\int_\Omega \frac{dxdy}{|x-y|} $$ denote the Coulomb (or gravitational, etc) energy. Poincaré is cred …
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Compact surface with arbitrarily large eigenvalue

Yang and Yau proved that for a surface of genus $\gamma$, $\Sigma$ with a metric $g$, the first eigenvalue satisfies $$ \lambda_1(g) Area(g) \leq 8\pi (1+\gamma). $$ So, the answer to your first ques …
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Ricci flow and isometry group

The answer is yes (I'm assuming you are asking about closed manifolds, non-compactness allows for all sort of crazy things to happen, you can check out the work of Topping and collaborators). Kotsch …
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Survey paper on isoperimetry

There's been several articles in the comments that are "historical survey" articles. Its not totally clear if you're interested in "current research surveys," but if you are, here are several very ni …
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Hamilton-Ivey pinching in dimension 4

One striking example of the failure of Hamilton-Ivey pinching can be seen here in which it is shown that the FIK shrinkers (which do not have non-negative Ricci curvature, much less non-negative secti …
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Ricci curvature under rough convergence

From the work of Lott--Villani and Sturm, I know that the following fact holds: (*) Suppose that $(M_k,g_k,dvol_{g_k})$ is a sequence of compact Riemannian manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvatur …
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Are there some other notions of "curvature" which measure how space curves?

An interesting "curvature" which has recently received much interest is the "Ma--Trudinger--Wang" (MTW) tensor, which arose in the study of when optimal transport maps are smooth on a Riemannian manif …
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Derivative of (the length of) the Ricci tensor

The comments section was getting unwieldy, so I'll answer here. Hopefully this is helpful. What I was trying to say is as follows: suppose that $(M,g,X)$ is a steady gradient soliton, i.e. $$ \math …
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$X$ Polish geodesic implies $(P_2(X), W_2)$ geodesic

EDIT: As pointed out by Tapio Rajala, my proof is wrong without assuming that $X$ is compact. I've added this assumption, which I don't think is necessary, but I am having some trouble seeing how to d …
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Symmetry Properties of Minimizers - Calculus of Variations

Here is an explicit example, which may or may not fit into your requirements: In http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=308905, "The equivariant Plateau problem and interior regularity," Lawson sho …
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Hausdorff measure on the sphere is well defined?

This MSE question contains a slick proof of the fact that If $i:M^n\hookrightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is an embedded submanifold, then writing $g=i^*\delta$ as the induced metric on $M$, the volume …
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Levy-Gromov Isoperimetric Inequality

There's a paper of Berard Besson Gallot who generalize the Levy--Gromov result to have a diameter dependence as well as allowing for negative lower curvature bounds: "Sur une inégalité isopérimétriqu …
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