A study of particular coordinate systems

This thesis is a study of the properties and relationships between isothermal, harmonic and characteristic coordinate systems. The proof of the existence of isothermal and characteristic coordinates on a manifold which is a graph is given using the Uniformization theorem. Equations of prescribed mea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ragan, Jennifer D.
Other Authors: Lancaster, Kirk E.
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Wichita State University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3968