In this thesis we study qualitative as well as quantitative stability aspects of isometric and conformal maps from S^(n-1) to R^n, when n is greater or equal to 2 or 3 respectively. Starting from the classical theorem of Liouville, according to which the isometry group of S^(n-1) is the group of its rigid motions and the conformal group of S^(n-1) is the one of its Möbius transformations, we obtain stability results for these classes of mappings among maps from S^(n-1) to R^n in terms of appropriately defined deficits.
Unlike classical geometric rigidity results for maps defined on domains of R^n and mapping into R^n, not only an isometric\ conformal deficit is necessary in this more flexible setting, but also a deficit measuring how much the maps in consideration distort S^(n-1) in a generalized sense. The introduction of the latter is motivated by the classical Euclidean isoperimetric inequality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:73090 |
| Date | 07 December 2020 |
| Creators | Zemas, Konstantinos |
| Contributors | Universität Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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