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Complex, contact, Riemannian, pseudo-Riemannian and Finsler geometry, relativity, gauge theory, global analysis.
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Why are they called isothermal coordinates?
According to Gray, Abbena and Salamon, that's the name given to such coordinate systems by Gabriel Lamé in his 1833 study of heat transfer. The reason is, if you've got a thermally isolated surface of …
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