Ralph Howard

Preprints and papers:

  • Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Multivariate Functions.
    with Maria Girardi.
    A revision has appeared in Real Analysis Exchange.
  • Kinematic and Crofton formulas for linear groups
    A revision has appeared in Acta Mathematica Scientia
  • Schur type comparison theorems for affine curves
    A revision has appeared in Journal of Geometry
  • Bounding the number of lattice points near a convex curve by curvature.
    with Ognian Trifonov. A revision has appeared in Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici
  • Maps That Must Be Affine or Conjugate Affine: a Problem of Vladimir Arnold
    with Alexei Gorinov, Virginia Johnson and George F. McNulty.
    A revision has appeared in Arnold Mathematical Journal.
  • A Functional Equation Characterization of Archimedean Ordered Fields
    with Virginia Johnson and George F. McNulty.
    A revision has appeared in The American Mathematical Monthly.
  • On The Existence And Nonexistence Of Stable Submanifolds And Currents In Positively Curved Manifolds And The Topology Of Submanifolds In Euclidean Spaces.
    with Shihshu Walter Wei.
    A revision has appeared in Contemporary Mathematics., 646, (2015), pages 127-167.
  • Total diameter and the area of closed submanifolds.
    with Mohammad Ghomi.
    A revision has appeared in Mathematische Annalen., 363 (2015) pages 985-999.
  • Tangent cones and regularity of real hypersurfaces.
    with Mohammad Ghomi .
    A revision has appeared in Journal f¿r die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal)
  • Normal Curvatures of Asymptotically Constant Graphs and Caratheodory's Conjecture.
    with Mohammad Ghomi .
    A revision has appeard in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 140 (2012) pages 4323-4335.
  • Nakajima's Problem: Convex Bodies of Constant Width and Constant Brightness.
    with Daniel Hug.
    A revision has appeared Mathematika 54 (2007) pages 15-24.
  • Smooth Convex Bodies with Proportional Projection Functions.
    with Daniel Hug.
    A revision has appeared Israel Journal of Mathematics 159 (2007) pages 317-341.
  • Convex Bodies of Constant Width and Constant Brightness.
    A revision has appeared Advances in Mathematics 204 (2006) pages 241-261.
  • Circles Minimize most Knot Energies.
    with Aaron Abrams, Jason Cantarella, Joe Fu, and Mohammad Ghomi.
    A revision has appeared in Topology, 42 (2003) pages 381-394.
  • A General Theory of Almost Convex Functions.
    with Steve Dilworth and Jim Roberts.
    A revision has appeared in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 358 (2006) pages 3413-3445.
  • Extremal Approximately Convex Functions and the Best Constants in a Theorem of Hyers and Ulam.
    with Steve Dilworth and Jim Roberts.
    A revision has appeared in Advances in Mathematics 172 (2002) pages 1-14.
  • On Fine Differentiability Properties of Horizons and Applications to Riemannian Geometry.
    with Piotr T. Chrusciel, Joe Fu, and Greg Galloway.
    A revision has appeared in Journal of Geometry and Physics 41 (2002) pages 1-12.
  • Constructing Complete Projectively Flat Connections.
    A revision has appeared in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 35 (2005) pages 1909-1922.
  • Solutions Near Singular Points to the Eikonal and Related First Order Non-linear Partial Differential Equations in Two Independent Variables.
    with Emil Cornea and Per-Gunnar Martinsson,
    A revision has appeared Differential and Integral Equations 14 (2001) pages 1441-1468.
  • Regularity of Horizons and the Area Theorem.
    with Piotr T. Chrusciel, Erwann Delay, and Greg Galloway.
    A revision has appeared in Annales Henri Poincaré 2 (2001) pages 109-178.
  • On the Size of Approximately Convex Sets in Normed Spaces.
    with Steve Dilworth and Jim Roberts.
    A revision has appeared in Studia Mathematica 140 (2000) pages 213-241.
  • Towards a Katona Type Proof for the 2-Intersecting Erdös-Ko-Rado Theorem.
    with Gyula Károlyi and László A. Székely.
    A revision has appeared in Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 8 (2001) R31
  • Extremal Approximately Convex Functions and Estimating the Size of Convex Hulls.
    with Steve Dilworth and Jim Roberts.
    A revision has appeared in Advances in Mathematics 148 (1999) pages 1-43.
  • A Strong Maximum Principle for Weak Solutions of Quasi-Linear Elliptic Equations with Applications to Lorentzian and Riemannian Geometry.
    with Lars Andersson and Greg Galloway.
    A revision has appeared in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 51 (1998) pages 581-624.
  • The Cosmological Time Function.
    with Lars Andersson and Greg Galloway.
    A revision has appeared in Classical and Quantum Gravity 15 (1998) pages 309-322.
  • Comparison and Rigidity Theorems in Semi-Riemannian Geometry.
    with Lars Andersson.
    A revision has appeared in Communications in Analysis and Geometry 6 (1998) pages 819-877.
  • The Sharp Sobolev Inequality and the Banchoff-Pohl Inequality on Surfaces.
    A revision has appeared in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 126 (1998) pages 2779-2787.
  • Blaschke's Rolling Theorem for Manifolds with Boundary.
    A revision has appeared in Manuscripta Mathematica 99 (1999) pages 471-483.
  • Boundary and Lens Rigidity of Lorentzian Surfaces.
    with Lars Andersson and Mattias Dahl.
    A revision has appeared in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 348 (1996) pages 2307-2329.
  • Processes of Flats Induced by Higher Dimensional Processes III.
    with Paul Goodey and Mark Reeder.
    A revision has appeared in Geometriae Dedicata 61 (1996) pages 257-269
  • A Reverse Isoperimetric Inequality, Stability and Extremal Theorems for Plane Curves with Bounded Curvature.
    with Andrejs Treibergs.
    A revision has appeared in The Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics 25 (1995) pages 635-684.
  • The Kinematic Formula in Riemannian Homogeneous Spaces.
    A revision has appeared in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society 106 (1993) no. 509.
  • Characterization of Eigenfunctions by Boundedness Conditions.
    with Margaret Reese.
    A revision has appeared in Canadian Mathematical Bulletin 35 (1992) pages 204-213.
  • Norms of positive operators on Lp-spaces.
    with Anton Schep.
    A revision has appeared in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 109 (1990) pages 135-146.
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