<p>Digital geometry is the geometry of digital images. Compared to Euclid’s geometry, which has been studied for more than two thousand years, this field is very young.</p><p>Efim Khalimsky’s topology on the integers, invented in the 1970s, is a digital counterpart of the Euclidean topology on the real line. The Khalimsky topology became widely known to researchers in digital geometry and computer imagery during the early 1990s.</p><p>Suppose that a continuous function is defined on a subspace of an <i>n-</i>dimensional Khalimsky space. One question to ask is whether this function can be extended to a continuous function defined on the whole space. We solve this problem. A related problem is to characterize the subspaces on which every continuous function can be extended. Also this problem is solved.</p><p>We generalize and solve the extension problem for integer-valued, Khalimsky-continuous functions defined on arbitrary smallest-neighborhood spaces, also called Alexandrov spaces.</p><p>The notion of a digital straight line was clarified in 1974 by Azriel Rosenfeld. We introduce another type of digital straight line, a line that respects the Khalimsky topology in the sense that a line is a topological embedding of the Khalimsky line into the Khalimsky plane.</p><p>In higher dimensions, we generalize this construction to digital Khalimsky hyperplanes, surfaces and curves by digitization of real objects. In particular we study approximation properties and topological separation properties. </p><p>The last paper is about Khalimsky manifolds, spaces that are locally homeomorphic to <i>n-</i>dimensional Khalimsky space. We study different definitions and address basic questions such as uniqueness of dimension and existence of certain manifolds.</p>

Digital geometry is the geometry of digital images. Compared to Euclid’s geometry, which has been studied for more than two thousand years, this field is very young. Efim Khalimsky’s topology on the integers, invented in the 1970s, is a digital counterpart of the Euclidean topology on the real line. The Khalimsky topology became widely known to researchers in digital geometry and computer imagery during the early 1990s. Suppose that a continuous function is defined on a subspace of an n-dimensional Khalimsky space. One question to ask is whether this function can be extended to a continuous function defined on the whole space. We solve this problem. A related problem is to characterize the subspaces on which every continuous function can be extended. Also this problem is solved. We generalize and solve the extension problem for integer-valued, Khalimsky-continuous functions defined on arbitrary smallest-neighborhood spaces, also called Alexandrov spaces. The notion of a digital straight line was clarified in 1974 by Azriel Rosenfeld. We introduce another type of digital straight line, a line that respects the Khalimsky topology in the sense that a line is a topological embedding of the Khalimsky line into the Khalimsky plane. In higher dimensions, we generalize this construction to digital Khalimsky hyperplanes, surfaces and curves by digitization of real objects. In particular we study approximation properties and topological separation properties. The last paper is about Khalimsky manifolds, spaces that are locally homeomorphic to n-dimensional Khalimsky space. We study different definitions and address basic questions such as uniqueness of dimension and existence of certain manifolds.

Le flot de Ricci, introduit par Hamilton au début des années 80, a montré sa valeur pour étudier la topologie et la géométrie des variétés riemanniennes lisses. Il a ainsi permis de démontrer la conjecture de Poincaré (Perelman, 2003) et le théorème de la sphère différentiable (Brendle et Schoen, 2008). Cette thèse s'intéresse aux applications du flot de Ricci à des espaces métriques à courbure minorée peu lisses. On définit en particulier ce que signifie pour un flot de Ricci d'avoir pour condition initiale un espace métrique. Dans le Chapitre 2, on présente certains travaux de Simon permettant de construire un flot de Ricci pour certains espaces métriques de dimension 3. On démontre aussi deux applications de cette construction : un théorème de finitude en dimension 3 et une preuve alternative d'un théorème de Cheeger et Colding en dimension 3. Dans le Chapitre 3, on s'intéresse à la dimension 2. On montre que pour les surfaces singulières à courbure minorée (au sens d'Alexandrov), on peut définir un flot de Ricci et que celui-ci est unique. Ceci permet de montrer que l'application qui à une surface associe son flot de Ricci est continue par rapport aux perturbations Gromov-Hausdorff de la condition initiale. Le Chapitre 4 généralise une partie de ces méthodes en dimension quelconque. On doit y considérer des conditions de courbure autres que les usuelles minorations de la courbure de Ricci ou de la courbure sectionnelle. Les méthodes mises en place permettent de construire un flot de Ricci pour certains espaces métriques non effondrés limites de variétés dont l'opérateur de courbure est minoré. On montre aussi que sous certaines hypothèses de non-effondrement, les variétés à opérateur de courbure presque positif portent une métrique à opérateur de courbure positif ou nul. / The Ricci flow was introduced by Hamilton in the beginning of the 90's. It has been a valuable tool to study the topology and the geometry of smooth Riemannian manifolds. For example, it was essential in the of the Poincaré conjecture (Perelman, 2003) and of the differentiable sphere theorem (Brendle and Schoen, 2008). In this thesis, we are interested in the applications of Ricci flow to metric spaces with curvature bounded from below which are not smooth. We define what it means for a Ricci flow to admit a metric space as initial condition. In Chapter 2, we present some works of Simon which allow to build a Ricci flow for some metric spaces of dimension 3. We also give two applications of this result : a finiteness theorem in dimension 3 and an alternative of a theorem of Cheeger and Colding in dimension 3. In Chapter 3, we treat the special case of dimension 2. We show that for singular surfaces whose curvature is boded from below (in the sense of Alexandrov), we can define a Ricci and it is unique. This allow to show that for surfaces with curvature bounded from below, the application which maps a surface to its Ricci flow is continuous with respect to Gromov-Hausdorff perturbations of the initial condition. Chapter 4 generalizes some of these methods in higher dimension. Here one needs to consider other conditions on the curvature than the usual "Ricci curvature bounded from below" and "sectional curvature bounded from below". The methods used there allow us to build a Ricci flow for some non-collapsed metric spaces which are limits of manifolds whose curvature operator is bounded from below. We also show that under some non-collapsing assumptions manifolds with almost non-negative curvature operator admit metrics with non-negative curvature operator.

The interaction between the study of geometric and analytic aspects of Riemannian manifolds and that of graphs is a very amazing subject. The study of synthetic curvature notions on graphs adds new contributions to this topic. In this thesis, we mainly study two kinds of synthetic curvature notions: the Ollivier-Ricci cuvature on locally finite graphs and the combinatorial curvature on infinite semiplanar graphs. In the first part, we study the Ollivier-Ricci curvature. As known in Riemannian geometry, a lower Ricci curvature bound prevents geodesics from diverging too fast on average. We translate this Riemannian idea into a combinatorial setting using the Olliver-Ricci curvature notion. Note that on a graph, the analogue of geodesics starting in different directions, but eventually approaching each other again, would be a triangle. We derive lower and upper Ollivier-Ricci curvature bounds on graphs in terms of number of triangles, which is sharp for instance for complete graphs. We then describe the relation between Ollivier-Ricci curvature and the local clustering coefficient, which is an important concept in network analysis introduced by Watts-Strogatz. Furthermore, positive lower boundedness of Ollivier-Ricci curvature for neighboring vertices imply the existence of at least one triangle. It turns out that the existence of triangles can also improve Lin-Yau\'s curvature dimension inequality on graphs and then produce an implication from Ollivier-Ricci curvature lower boundedness to the curvature dimension inequality. The existence of triangles prevents a graph from being bipartite. A finite graph is bipartite if and only if its largest eigenvalue equals 2. Therefore it is natural that Ollivier-Ricci curvature is closely related to the largest eigenvalue estimates. We combine Ollivier-Ricci curvature notion with the neighborhood graph method developed by Bauer-Jost to study the spectrum estimates of a finite graph. We can always obtain nontrivial estimates on a non-bipartite graph even if its curvature is nonpositive. This answers one of Ollivier\'s open problem in the finite graph setting. In the second part of this thesis, we study systematically infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative combinatorial curvature. Unlike the previous Gauss-Bonnet formula approach, we explore an Alexandrov approach based on the observation that the nonnegative combinatorial curvature on a semiplanar graph is equivalent to nonnegative Alexandrov curvature on the surface obtained by replacing each face by a regular polygon of side length one with the same facial degree and gluing the polygons along common edges. Applying Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem on the surface, we give a metric classification of infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative curvature. We also construct the graphs embedded into the projective plane minus one point. Those constructions answer a question proposed by Chen. We further prove the volume doubling property and Poincare inequality which make the running of Nash-Moser iteration possible. We in particular explore the volume growth behavior on Archimedean tilings on a plane and prove that they satisfy a weak version of relative volume comparison with constant 1. With the above two basic inequalities in hand, we study the geometric function theory of infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative curvature. We obtain the Liouville type theorem for positive harmonic functions, the parabolicity. We also prove a dimension estimate for polynomial growth harmonic functions, which is an extension of the solution of Colding-Minicozzi of a conjecture of Yau in Riemannian geometry.

The interaction between the study of geometric and analytic aspects of Riemannian manifolds and that of graphs is a very amazing subject. The study of synthetic curvature notions on graphs adds new contributions to this topic. In this thesis, we mainly study two kinds of synthetic curvature notions: the Ollivier-Ricci cuvature on locally finite graphs and the combinatorial curvature on infinite semiplanar graphs. In the first part, we study the Ollivier-Ricci curvature. As known in Riemannian geometry, a lower Ricci curvature bound prevents geodesics from diverging too fast on average. We translate this Riemannian idea into a combinatorial setting using the Olliver-Ricci curvature notion. Note that on a graph, the analogue of geodesics starting in different directions, but eventually approaching each other again, would be a triangle. We derive lower and upper Ollivier-Ricci curvature bounds on graphs in terms of number of triangles, which is sharp for instance for complete graphs. We then describe the relation between Ollivier-Ricci curvature and the local clustering coefficient, which is an important concept in network analysis introduced by Watts-Strogatz. Furthermore, positive lower boundedness of Ollivier-Ricci curvature for neighboring vertices imply the existence of at least one triangle. It turns out that the existence of triangles can also improve Lin-Yau\''s curvature dimension inequality on graphs and then produce an implication from Ollivier-Ricci curvature lower boundedness to the curvature dimension inequality. The existence of triangles prevents a graph from being bipartite. A finite graph is bipartite if and only if its largest eigenvalue equals 2. Therefore it is natural that Ollivier-Ricci curvature is closely related to the largest eigenvalue estimates. We combine Ollivier-Ricci curvature notion with the neighborhood graph method developed by Bauer-Jost to study the spectrum estimates of a finite graph. We can always obtain nontrivial estimates on a non-bipartite graph even if its curvature is nonpositive. This answers one of Ollivier\''s open problem in the finite graph setting. In the second part of this thesis, we study systematically infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative combinatorial curvature. Unlike the previous Gauss-Bonnet formula approach, we explore an Alexandrov approach based on the observation that the nonnegative combinatorial curvature on a semiplanar graph is equivalent to nonnegative Alexandrov curvature on the surface obtained by replacing each face by a regular polygon of side length one with the same facial degree and gluing the polygons along common edges. Applying Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem on the surface, we give a metric classification of infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative curvature. We also construct the graphs embedded into the projective plane minus one point. Those constructions answer a question proposed by Chen. We further prove the volume doubling property and Poincare inequality which make the running of Nash-Moser iteration possible. We in particular explore the volume growth behavior on Archimedean tilings on a plane and prove that they satisfy a weak version of relative volume comparison with constant 1. With the above two basic inequalities in hand, we study the geometric function theory of infinite semiplanar graphs with nonnegative curvature. We obtain the Liouville type theorem for positive harmonic functions, the parabolicity. We also prove a dimension estimate for polynomial growth harmonic functions, which is an extension of the solution of Colding-Minicozzi of a conjecture of Yau in Riemannian geometry.

Les travaux présentés dans cette thèse portent sur le rôle que peuvent jouer les différentes courbures extrinsèques d’une hypersurface dans l’étude de sa géométrie, en particulier dans le cas des variétés spinorielles. Dans un premier temps, nous nous intéressons au cas de la courbure moyenne et construisons une nouvelle famille de surfaces minimales non simplement connexes dans le groupe de Lie Sol3, en adaptant une méthode déjà utilisée par Daniel et Hauswirth dans Nil3 et utilisant les propriétés de l’application de Gauss d’une surface. Ensuite, nous démontrons le Théorème d’Alexandrov généralisé aux Hr-courbures dans l’espace euclidien Rn+1 et dans l’espace hyperbolique Hn+1 en testant un spineur adéquat dans des inégalités de type holographiques établies récemment par Hijazi, Montiel et Raulot. Grâce à ces inégalités, nous démontrons également l'Inégalité de Heintze-Karcher dans l'espace euclidien. Enfin, nous donnons des majorations extrinsèques de la première valeur propre de l’opérateur de Dirac des surfaces de S2 x S1(r) et des sphères de Berger Sb3 (τ) grâce aux restrictions de spineurs ambiants construits par Roth, et nous en caractérisons les cas d’égalité. / In this thesis we are interested in the role played by the extrinsic curvatures of a hypersurface in the study of its geometry, especially in the case of spin manifolds. First, we focus our attention on the mean curvature and construct a new family of non simply connected minimal surfaces in the Lie group Sol3, by adapting a method used by Daniel and Hauswirth in Nil3 based on the properties of the Gauss map of a surface. Then we give a new spinorial proof of the Alexandrov Theorem extended to all Hr-curvatures in the euclidean space Rn+1 and in the hyperbolic space Hn+1, using a well-chosen test-spinor in the holographic inequalities recently obtained by Hijazi, Montiel and Raulot. These inequalities lead to a new proof of the Heintze-Karcher Inequality as well. Finally we use restrictions of particular ambient spinor fields constructed by Roth to give some extrinsic upper bounds for the first nonnegative eigenvalue of the Dirac operator of surfaces immersed into S2 x S1(r) and into the Berger spheres Sb3 (τ), and we describe the equality cases.

La recherche d'une compactification de l'ensemble des métriques Riemanniennes à singularités coniques sur une surface amène naturellement à l'étude des "surfaces à Courbure Intégrale Bornée au sens d'Alexandrov". Il s'agit d'une géométrie singulière, développée par A. Alexandrov et l'école de Leningrad dans les années 1970, et dont la caractéristique principale est de posséder une notion naturelle de courbure, qui est une mesure. Cette large classe géométrique contient toutes les surfaces "raisonnables" que l'on peut imaginer.Le résultat principal de cette thèse est un théorème de compacité pour des métriques d'Alexandrov sur une surface ; un corollaire immédiat concerne les métriques Riemanniennes à singularités coniques. On décrit dans ce manuscrit trois hypothèses adaptées aux surfaces d'Alexandrov, à la manière du théorème de compacité de Cheeger-Gromov qui concerne les variétés Riemanniennes à courbure bornée, rayon d'injectivité minoré et volume majoré. On introduit notamment la notion de rayon de contractibilité, qui joue le rôle du rayon d'injectivité dans ce cadre singulier.On s'est également attachés à étudier l'espace (de module) des métriques d'Alexandrov sur la sphère, à courbure positive le long d'une courbe fermée. Un sous-ensemble intéressant est constitué des convexes compacts du plan, recollés le long de leurs bords. A la manière de W. Thurston, C. Bavard et E. Ghys, qui ont considéré l'espace de module des polyèdres et polygones (convexes) à angles fixés, on montre que l'identification d'un convexe à sa fonction de support fait naturellement apparaître une géométrie hyperbolique de dimension infinie, dont on étudie les premières propriétés. / If we look for a compactification of the space of Riemannian metrics with conical singularities on a surface, we are naturally led to study the "surfaces with Bounded Integral Curvature in the Alexandrov sense". It is a singular geometry, developed by A. Alexandrov and the Leningrad's school in the 70's, and whose main feature is to have a natural notion of curvature, which is a measure. This large geometric class contains any "reasonable" surface we may imagine.The main result of this thesis is a compactness theorem for Alexandrov metrics on a surface ; a straightforward corollary concerns Riemannian metrics with conical singularities. We describe here three hypothesis which pair with the Alexandrov surfaces, following Cheeger-Gromov's compactness theorem, which deals with Riemannian manifolds with bounded curvature, injectivity radius bounded by below and volume bounded by above. Among other things, we introduce the new notion of contractibility radius, which plays the role of the injectivity radius in this singular setting.We also study the (moduli) space of Alexandrov metrics on the sphere, with non-negative curvature along a closed curve. An interesting subset is the set of compact convex sets, glued along their boundaries. Following W. Thurston, C. Bavard and E. Ghys, who considered the moduli space of (convex) polyhedra and polygons with fixed angles, we show that the identification between a convex set and its support function give rise to an infinite dimensional hyperbolic geometry, for which we study the first properties.