Thirty-three yes or no questions about mappings, measures, and metrics

Heinonen, Juha; Semmes, Stephen

doi:10.1090/S1088-4173-97-00012-X

Thirty-three yes or no questions about mappings, measures, and metrics
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by Juha Heinonen and Stephen Semmes

Conform. Geom. Dyn. 1 (1997), 1-12

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S1088-4173-97-00012-X

Published electronically: May 22, 1997

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We display thirty-three questions of geometric nature. Most of the problems are of fairly recent origin, and the formulation of each problem is such that it can be answered by one word only.

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