Special Year 2018-19: Workshop on Geometric Functionals: Analysis and Applications

Abstract: Uryson k-width of a metric space X measures how close X is to being k-dimensional. Several years ago Larry Guth proved that if M is a closed n-dimensional manifold, and the volume of each ball of radius 1 in M does not exceed a certain...

Abstract: For surfaces immersed into a compact Riemannian manifold, we consider the curvature functional given by the $L^2$ integral of the second fundamental form. We discuss an an area bound in terms of that functional, with application to the...

Abstract: We present new-curvature one-cycle sweepout estimates in Riemannian geometry, both on surfaces and in higher dimension. More precisely, we derive upper bounds on the length of one-parameter families of one-cycles sweeping out essential...

Abstract : It is a joint work with G. Courtois, S. Gallot and A.Sambusetti. We prove a compactness theorem for metric spaces with anupper bound on the entropy and other conditions that will be discussed.Several finiteness results will be drawn. It...

Abstract: For a given finite subset S of a compact Riemannian manifold (M; g) whose Schouten curvature tensor belongs to a given cone, we establish a necessary and
sufficient condition for the existence and uniqueness of a conformal metric on $M...

Abstract: It is a basic open question in geometric measure theory to understand regularity of a stationary integral varifold. Even a.e. regularity remains an open question. The central issue is analyzing the varifold near a point Z with a tangent...

Abstract: Let M be a compact Riemannian manifold. Morse theory for the energy function on the free loopspace LM of M gives a link between geometry and topology, between the growth of the index of the iterates of closed geodesics on M, and the...

Abstract: Finding non-constant harmonic 3-spheres for a closed target manifold N is a prototype of a super-critical variational problem. In fact, the
direct method fails, as the infimum of the Dirichlet energy in any homotopy class of maps from the...

Abstract: Functional Determinants are quantities constructed out of spectra of conformally covariant operators, and are explicit in dimension two and four, due to formulas by Polyakov and Branson-Oersted. Extremizing them in a conformal class...