Preface to the French Edition |
Preface to the English Edition |
Introduction: Metrics Everywhere |
Length structures: Path metric spaces / 1: |
Examples of path metric spaces |
Arc-wise isometries |
Degree and dilatation / 2: |
Review : Degree of mappings between oriented manifolds |
Elementary properties of dilatations for spheres |
Some general homotopy counting results for Lipschitz maps |
Dilatation of sphere-valued mappings |
Metric structures / 3: |
Lipschitz distance |
Hausdorff distance |
First examples of Hausdorff convergence |
The noncompact case : Pointed distances |
The Hausdorff-Lipschitz metric and quasi-isometry |
First-order metric invariants and ultralimits |
Convergence with control |
Convergence and concentration of metric and measures |
Loewner rediscovered: First, some history (in dimension 2) / 4: |
Next, some questions in dimension Ç 3 |
Finally, the theorems |
An application of geometric integration theory |
Unstable systolic inequalities and filling |
Finer inequalities and systoles of universal spaces |
Manifolds with bounded Ricci curvature / 5: |
Precompactness |
Growth of fundamental groups |
The first Betti number |
Small loops |
Isoperimetric inequalities and amenability / 6: |
Quasiregular mappings |
Isoperimetric dimension of a manifold |
Computations of isoperimetric dimension |
Generalizations |
Morse theory and minimal models / 7: |
Application to Morse theory to loop spaces |
Dilatation of mappings between simply connected manifolds |
Pinching and collapse / 8: |
Why pinch the sectional curvature? |
Implications of pinched curvature |
limits of pinched manifolds |
Nilpotent groups |
"Quasiconvex" domains in R[superscript n] / Appendix A: |
Metric spaces and mappings seen at many scales / Appen B: |
Basic concepts and examples |
Analysis on general spaces |
Rigidity and structure |
An introduction to real-variable methods |
Paul Levy's isoperimetric inequality / Appen C: |
Systolically Free Manifolds / Appen D: |
Bibliography |
Glossary of Notation |
Index |
Preface to the French Edition |
Preface to the English Edition |
Introduction: Metrics Everywhere |
Length structures: Path metric spaces / 1: |
Examples of path metric spaces |
Arc-wise isometries |