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Nonsmooth differential geometry– An approach tailored for spaces with Ricci curvature bounded from below
About this Title
Nicola Gigli, Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu - UPMC
Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year:
2018; Volume 251, Number 1196
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-2765-8 (print); 978-1-4704-4266-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/1196
Published electronically: November 6, 2017
MSC: Primary 49J52; Secondary 46G05, 46E25
Table of Contents
Chapters
- Introduction
- 1. The machinery of $L^p(\mathfrak m)$-normed modules
- 2. First order differential structure of general metric measure spaces
- 3. Second order differential structureof $\textsf {RCD}(K,\infty )$ spaces
Abstract
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