Geometry, Topology and Physics: Proceedings of the First Brazil-USA Workshop held in Campinas, Brazil, June 30-July 7, 1996

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Geometry, Topology and Physics

Proceedings of the First Brazil-USA Workshop held in Campinas, Brazil, June 30-July 7, 1996

Edited by: Boris N. Apanasov , Steven B. Bradlow , Waldyr A. Rodrigues and Karen K. Uhlenbeck

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1997

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I-IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Program of the Workshop Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	IX
Compact cohomogeneity one Riemannian manifolds of positive Euler characteristic and quaternionic Kahler manifolds D. V. Alekseevsky and F. Podestà Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Quasiconformality and geometrical finiteness in Carnot-Caratheodory and negatively curved spaces Boris Apanasov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
Special submanifolds of S6 with its G2 geometry John Bolton and Lyndon M. Woodward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Some geometrical aspects of the 2-dimensional Toda equations J. Bolton and L M. Woodward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	69
A new look at the vortex equations and dimensional reduction Steven Bradlow, James Glazebrook and Franz Kamber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
The universal cover of an affine three-manifold with holonomy of discompactedness two Suhyoung Choi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Geometric quantization for the moduli space of vector bundles with parabolic structure Georgios D. Daskalopoulos and Richard A. Wentworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
The eta invariant, manifolds of positive scalar curvature, and equivariant bordism Peter B. Gilkey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Locally conformally Kählerian structures on complex manifolds and uniformization Yoshinobu Kamishima Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
A topological method for finding non-absolute minima for the Yang-Mills functional with Dirichlet data Antonella Marini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Some remarks on equivariant harmonic and non-holomorphic maps in Riemannian manifolds Caio J. C. Negreiros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Focal decomposition in geometry, arithmetic and physics Mauricio M. Peixoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
Simple type is not a boundary phenomenon Lorenzo Sadun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
On the homology cobordism group of homology 3-spheres Nikolai Saveliev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
θ-vacua in the light front quantized Schwinger model Prem P. Srivastava Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Clifford algebras and Witten's monopole equations Jayme Vaz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Sobolev classes and quasi-conformal mappings on Carnot-Caratheodory spaces Serguei Vodop'yanov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
Harmonic maps and morphisms in 4 dimensions John C. Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	317
Open Problems Session Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	341
List of Participants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	345

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