Author | Palais, Richard S. author |
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Title | Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry [electronic resource] / by Richard S. Palais, Chuu-liang Terng |
Imprint | Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0087442 |
Descript | XII, 280 p. online resource |
Preliminaries -- Local geometry of submanifolds -- Weingarten Surfaces in three dimensional space forms -- Focal points -- Transformation groups -- Isoparametric submanifolds -- Proper Fredholm submanifolds in Hilbert spaces -- Topology of isoparametric submanifolds -- Elementary critical point theory -- Advanced critical point theory -- The calculus of variations