Mollifier Smoothing of tensor fields on differentiable manifolds and applications to Riemannian Geometry

dc.creatorFukuoka, Ryuichi
dc.date2006-08-09
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:21:35Z
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dc.descriptionLet M be a differentiable manifold. We say that a tensor field g defined on M is non-regular if g is in some local Lp space or if g is continuous. In this work we define a mollifier smoothing g_t of g that has the following feature: If g is a Riemannian metric of class C2, then the Levi-Civita connection and the Riemannian curvature tensor of g_t converges to the Levi-Civita connection and to the Riemannian curvature tensor of g respectively as t converges to zero. Therefore this mollifier smoothing is a good starting point in order to generalize objects of the classical Riemannian geometry to non-regular Riemannian manifolds. Finally we give some applications of this mollifier smoothing. In particular, we generalize the concept of Lipschitz-Killing curvature measure for some non-regular Riemannian manifolds.
dc.description43 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608230
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608230
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/115351
dc.subjectDifferential Geometry
dc.subjectMetric Geometry
dc.subject53B21 (Primary); 41A35, 53A45, 53B20 (Secondary)
dc.titleMollifier Smoothing of tensor fields on differentiable manifolds and applications to Riemannian Geometry
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