SADDLE SURFACES

Περιγραφή

The class of saddle surfaces is dual to the class of convex surfaces. A surface in a Euclidean space is saddle if it isimpossible to cut off a crust by any hyperplane. Historically, saddle surfaces are connected with the Plateau problem.In this book we extend the idea of a saddle surface to geodesically connected metric spaces and we study the classof saddle surfaces in spaces of curvature bounded from above in the sense of A.D. Aleksandrov. Metric spaces ofbounded curvature inherit basic properties of Riemannian spaces while they may have strong topological and metric singularities.For convenience we first review the basic theory of metric spaces of curvature bounded from above in the sense of Aleksandrov. Then we provide a source of examples and we classify several properties of saddle surfaces including completeness and compactness theorems, optimization problems, isoperimetric inequalities and issues about their intrinsic curvature. Stronger results are presented in spaces of constant curvature.
ISBN978-618-5439-41-5
Barcode9786185439415
Ημ. Έκδοσης2021-05-28
ΕξώφυλλοΜαλακό εξώφυλλο
Σελίδες123
ΥποοικογένειαΜαθηματικά
ΚατηγορίαΓεωμετρία