Geometry and Topology: III Latin American School of Mathematics Proceedings of the School held at the Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada CNPg Rio de Janeiro July 1976

Evaluation of some Maunder cohomology operations....Pages 1-31
Construction geometrique de certaines series discretes....Pages 32-55
The point spectrum of the adjoint of an automorphism of a vector bundle....Pages 56-67
Whitney duality and singularities of projections....Pages 68-81
Orbit preserving diffeomorphisms and the stability of Lie group actions and singular foliations....Pages 82-103
On minimal immersions with parallel normal curvature tensor....Pages 104-113
Circle bundles....Pages 114-131
A topology for the space of foliations....Pages 132-150
Stability of compact foliations....Pages 151-160
Secondary operations in K-theory and the generalized vector field problem....Pages 161-175
On holomorphic solutions of certain kind of pfaffian systems with singularities....Pages 176-190
Scattering problems in differential geometry....Pages 191-229
The connected components of Morse-Smale vector fields on two manifolds....Pages 230-251
Feuilletages En Cylindres....Pages 252-270
Mesure de Lebesgue et Nombre de Rotation....Pages 271-293
The Godbillon-Vey invariant of foliations by planes of T 3 ....Pages 294-307
On the construction of the trace in serre duality....Pages 308-318
Localization theories for groups and homotopy types....Pages 319-329
On hyperbolic attractors of codimension one....Pages 330-334
On Liénard\'s equation....Pages 335-357
On the Weierstrass preparation theorem....Pages 358-360
Reduction of semilinear parabolic equations to finite dimensional C 1 flows....Pages 361-378
Axiom a for endomorphisms....Pages 379-388
Characterizations of AS diffeomorphisms....Pages 389-394
Structural stability of integrable differential forms....Pages 395-428
Accessibility of an optimum....Pages 429-440
The scattering problem for some particle systems on the line....Pages 441-463
Proof of a generalized from of a fixed point theorem due to G. D. Birkhoff....Pages 464-494
Some developments on stability and bifurcations of dynamical systems....Pages 495-509
Convexity and tightness of manifolds with boundary....Pages 510-541
Existence of brake orbits in Finsler mechanical systems....Pages 542-567
On the complex projective bundle construction....Pages 568-580
Symmetries, conservation laws and variational principles....Pages 581-604
Classification of generic quadratic vector fields with no limit cycles....Pages 605-640
The classifying ring of SL(2, C)....Pages 641-678
On the finite solvability of Plateau\'s problem....Pages 679-695
The set of curves of uniqueness for Plateau\'s problem has a dense interior....Pages 696-706
Geometric properties of generic differentiable manifolds....Pages 707-774
A catastrophe model for the stability of ships....Pages 775-827
Note on smoothing symplectic and volume preserving diffeomorphisms....Pages 828-854
A simple proof of a generalization of a theorem by C. L. Siegel....Pages 855-866