Differential geometry : proceedings, Special Year, Maryland, 1981-82

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This volume records results from the special year devoted to the study of differential geometry, involving experts from many countries. Recent work from a number of fields of differential geometry is presented, illustrating a broad range of techniques - such as partial differential equations, measure theory, combinatorial methods and Lie theory. The applications imolve Riemannian geometry, theory of foliations, and homogenous manifolds, among others. This volume will be of particular interest to graduate students and research mathematicians. TABLE OF CONTENTS Combinatorial Laplacians and Sullivan-Yhitney Forms by Garth A. Baker. . . " ......... Critical Points and Curvature for Embedded Polyhedra II by Thomas Banchoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Some Piemannian and Dynamical Invariants of Foliations by Robert Brooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Conformal Geometry by Leon Ehrenpreis 73 Vector Bundles with Harmonic Connections over Spheres by Peter B. Gilkey. . . . . . . . . . . 89 Foliations and t1etrics by Franz W. Kamber and Philippe Tondeur. 103 The Growth of flarmonic Functions and Mappin