Twisted-calibrations and the cone on the Veronese surface

This thesis proposes an extension of the methods of calibrated geometries to include non-orientable submanifolds. This is done by "orienting" a non-orientable submanifold N of a Riemannian manifold M with a real Euclidean line bundle. Real Euclidean line bundles over a smooth manifold are...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murdoch, Timothy Armstrong
Other Authors: Bryant, Robert L.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16171