Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Juha Heinonen
Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 44 (2007), 163-232.
MSC (2000): Primary 28A75, 49J52, 53C23, 51-02
Posted: January 24, 2007
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Abstract: We survey recent advances in analysis and geometry, where first order differential analysis has been extended beyond its classical smooth settings. Such studies have applications to geometric rigidity questions, but are also of intrinsic interest. The transition from smooth spaces to singular spaces where calculus is possible parallels the classical development from smooth functions to functions with weak or generalized derivatives. Moreover, there is a new way of looking at the classical geometric theory of Sobolev functions that is useful in more general contexts.

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Juha Heinonen
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Email: juha@umich.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0273-0979-07-01140-8
PII: S 0273-0979(07)01140-8
Received by editor(s): November 7, 2005,
Received by editor(s) in revised form: June 16, 2006
Posted: January 24, 2007
Additional Notes: This paper constitutes an expanded version of the AMS invited address given by the author in Boulder, Colorado, in October 2003
The author is grateful for the support and hospitality of MSRI and UC Berkeley, where the bulk of this paper was prepared during a visit in 2002-2003. Supported also by NSF grants DMS 0353549 and DMS 0244421.
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