In this thesis, we study some linear and nonlinear problems involving differential forms. We begin by studying the problem of pullbacks which asks the following question: for two given differential forms, if one is the pullback of the other via a diffeomor ...
In this paper we discuss the problem of alignment of patterns under arbitrary rotation. When a generic image pattern is geometrically transformed, it typically spans a (possibly nonlinear) manifold in a high dimensional space. When the pattern of interest ...
We study the relation between Sobolev inequalities for differential forms on a Riemannian manifold (M,g) and the Lq,p-cohomology of that manifold. The Lq,p-cohomology of (M,g) is defined to be the quotient of the space of closed differential ...