Entropy and isometric embedding
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Tue, 14/06/2011 12:30 |
Marshall Slemrod (University of Wisconsin) |
OxPDE Special Seminar  |
Gibson 1st Floor SR |
| The problem of isometric embedding of a Riemannian Manifold into Euclidean space is a classical issue in differential geometry and nonlinear PDE. In this talk, I will outline recent work my co-workers and I have done, using ideas from continuum mechanics as a guide, formulating the problem, and giving (we hope) some new insight into the role of " entropy". | |||