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Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory
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Abstract
Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory from a metric viewpoint. Contents: Lipschitz maps, differentiability, area and coarea formula, rectifiable sets, introduction to the (de Rham-Federer-Fleming) theory of currents, currents in metric spaces after Ambrosio-Kirchheim, normal currents, relation to BV functions, slicing, compactness theorem for integral currents and applications.
Content
Extendability and differentiability of Lipschitz maps, metric differentiability, rectifiable sets, approximate tangent spaces, area and coarea formula, brief survey of the (de Rham-Federer-Fleming) theory of currents, currents in metric spaces after Ambrosio-Kirchheim, currents with finite mass and normal currents, relation to BV functions, rectifiable and integral currents, slicing, compactness theorem for integral currents and applications.
Resources
Literature
- Lawrence C. Evans and Ronald F. Gariepy, Measure Theory and Fine Properties of Functions, 1992 - Pertti Mattila, Geometry of Sets and Measures in Euclidean Spaces, 1995 - Urs Lang, Notes on Rectifiability, https://people.math.ethz.ch/~lang/rect_notes.pdf - Herbert Federer, Geometric Measure Theory, 1969 - Steven Krantz and Harold R. Parks, Geometric Integration Theory, 2008 - Leon Simon, Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory, 2014, web.stanford.edu/class/math285/ts-gmt.pdf - Luigi Ambrosio and Bernd Kirchheim, Currents in metric spaces, Acta math. 185 (2000), 1-80 - Urs Lang, Local currents in metric spaces, J. Geom. Anal. 21 (2011), 683-742
General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- BSC , MSC
Examination
- Type
- session examination
- Mode
- oral 20 minutes
Course Components
| Type | Title | Time & Place | Hours |
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| lecture | Introduction to Geometric Measure Theory |
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3 h weekly |
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Electives (For the Master's degree in Applied Mathematics the following additional condition (not manifest in myStudies) must be obeyed: At least 14 of the required 26 credits from core courses and electives must be acquired in areas of applied mathematics and further application-oriented fields.)
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