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alvarezpaiva

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Good book on Calculus of Variations

answered Apr 29, 2013 at 17:24

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A question about a question about 3-dimensional convex bodies

answered Jul 26, 2013 at 19:15

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What is the geometric interpretation of this quantity?

answered Jan 7, 2014 at 10:42

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Reference request for an early theorem of Gromov

answered Jan 27, 2014 at 11:28

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How the Jacobi metrics may be useful in mechanics with or without constraints?

answered Feb 11, 2012 at 9:36

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Geodesic path on the unit sphere with the sup norm

answered Apr 8, 2012 at 11:27

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Old books still used

answered Dec 28, 2012 at 19:31

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"Modern" proof for the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula

answered Jun 10, 2012 at 11:47

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What is a Lagrangian submanifold intuitively?

answered Jun 29, 2017 at 9:27

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When is a flow geodesic and how to construct the connection from it

answered Dec 5, 2016 at 20:46

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Almost All Hyperplanes are Not Tangent

answered Jun 23, 2017 at 7:32

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Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand

answered Sep 15, 2017 at 18:46

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What are some very important papers published in non-top journals?

answered Nov 6, 2015 at 20:45

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When can the metric be reconstructed (up to scaling) from knowing the conjugate points?

answered Aug 21, 2018 at 20:07

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Approachable French masters

answered May 26, 2012 at 8:32

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Metric associated to a Connection on a Vector Bundle

answered Mar 9, 2012 at 16:03

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complex convex functions

answered Mar 20, 2012 at 17:33

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Criteria for Positivity of Pseudoddifferential Operators on Manifolds

answered Jun 18, 2012 at 15:27

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Quermassintegrals as mean curvature integrals

answered Jun 6, 2012 at 19:50

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Is there a good way to understand the free loop space of a sphere?

answered Nov 22, 2013 at 19:25

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A geometric interpretation of the Levi-Civita connection?

answered Jul 29, 2013 at 14:08

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A good reference to grok hypergeometric functions?

answered Jun 23, 2012 at 8:54

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Known size invariant for Riemannian manifolds?

answered Jan 12, 2013 at 20:58

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Necessary and sufficient curvature condition for a regular planar curve to be simple and closed

answered Apr 30, 2021 at 11:59

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A property of bi-invarient Finsler metrics on SU(N)

answered Jul 26, 2018 at 15:49

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No normal coordinates on general Finsler manifolds

answered Feb 5, 2016 at 18:03

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An equivalence relation for norms

answered Apr 7, 2014 at 13:59

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Characterizing Hessians among symmetric bilinear tensors

answered Mar 5, 2013 at 18:01

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What are some examples of mathematicians who had an unconventional education?

answered Jun 12, 2013 at 18:22

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Easy proof of topological property of Zoll manifolds

answered Jul 26, 2013 at 17:46

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