Topological lower bounds on the distance between area preserving diffeomorphisms

Bulletin of the Brazilian Mathematical Society

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-27

  Gambaudo, Jean Marc ^a   Lagrange, Maxime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Area preserving maps; Group of diffeomorphisms; Invariant metric; Topological invariant

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004467740     PISSN: 16787544     EISSN: 16787714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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