Geometry, Topology and Physics: Proceedings of the First Brazil-USA Workshop held in Campinas, Brazil, June 30-July 7, 1996

Abstract

Compact cohomogeneity one Riemannian manifolds of positive Euler characteristic and quaternionic Kahler manifolds, D.V. Alekeevsky, F. Podesta Quasiconformality and geometrical finiteness in Carno-Caratheodory and negatively curved spaces, B. Apanasov Special submanifolds of 56 with its G2 geometry, J. Bolton Some geometrical aspects of the 2-dimensional Toda equations, J. Bolton, L.M. Woodward A new look at the vortex equations and dimensional reduction, S. Bradlow et al The universal cover of an affine three-manifold with holonomy of discompactedness two, S. Choi Geometric quantization for the modili space of vector bundles with parabolic structure, G.D. Daskalopoulos The eta invariant, manifolds of positive scale curvature, and equivariant bordism, P.B. Gilkey Locally conformally Kahlerian structures on complex manifolds and uniformization, Y. Kamishima A topological method for finding non-absolute minima for the Yanf-Mills functional with Dirichlet data, A. Marini Some remarks on equivariant harmonic and non-holomorphic maps in Riemannian manifolds, C.J.C. Negreiro Focal decomposition in geometry, arithmetic and physics, M.M. Peixoto Simple type is not a boundary phenomenon, L. Sadun On the homology cobordism group of homology 3-spheres, N. Saveliev Clifford algebras and Witten's monopole equations, J. Vaz, Jr. Sobolev classes and quasi-conformal mappings on Carnot-Caratheodory spaces, S. Vodop'yanov Harmonic maps and morphisms in 4 dimensions, J.C. Wood. (Part contents).