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A couple of weeks ago, my student Yan Mary He presented a nice proof of Liouville's theorem to me during our weekly meeting. The proof was the one from Benedetti-Petronio's Lectures on Hyperbolic Geometry, which in my book gets lots of points for giving careful and complete details, and being self-contained and therefore accessible to beginning graduate students. Liouville's Theorem is the fact that a conformal map between open subsets of Euclidean space of dimension at least 3 are Mobius transformations — i.e. they look locally like the restriction of a composition of Euclidean similarities and inversions on round spheres. This implies that the image of a piece of a plane or round sphere is a piece of a plane or round sphere, a highly rigid constraint. This sort of rigidity is in stark contrast to the case of conformal maps in dimension 2: any holomorphic (or antiholomorphic) map between open regions in the complex plane is a conformal map (and conversely). The proof given in Benedetti-Petronio is certainly clear and readable, and gives all the details; but Mary and I were a bit unsatisfied that it did not really provide any geometric insight into the meaning of the theorem. So the purpose of this blog post is to give a short sketch of a proof of Liouville's theorem which is more geometric, and perhaps easier to remember.
Last week while in Tel Aviv I had an interesting conversation over lunch with Leonid Polterovich and Yaron Ostrover. I happened to mention the following gem from the remarkable book A=B by Wilf-Zeilberger. The book contains the following Theorem and "proof":
Theorem 1.4.2. For every triangle ABC, the angle bisectors intersect at one point
Proof. Verify this for the 64 triangles for which the angle at A and B are one of 10, 20, 30, , 80. Since the theorem is true in these cases it is always true.
We are asked the provocative question: is this proof acceptable? The philosophy of the W-Z method is illustrated by pointing out that this proof is acceptable if one adds for clarity the remark that the coordinates of the intersections of the pairs of angle bisectors are rational functions of degree at most 7 in the tangents of A/2 and B/2; hence if they agree at 64 points they agree everywhere.
Leonid countered with a personal anecdote. Recall that an altitude in a triangle is a line through one vertex which is perpendicular to the opposite edge. Leonid related that one day his geometry class (I forget the precise context) were given the problem of showing that the altitudes in a hyperbolic triangle (i.e. a triangle in the hyperbolic plane) meet at a single point — the orthocenter of the triangle. After the class had struggled with this for some time, the professor laconically informed them that the result obviously followed immediately from the corresponding fact for Euclidean triangles "by analytic continuation". Philosophically speaking, this is not too far from the W-Z example, although the details are slightly more shaky — in particular, the class of Euclidean triangles are not Zariski dense in the class of triangles in constant curvature spaces, so a little more remains to be done.
Actually, one might even go back and rethink the W-Z example — how exactly are we to verify that the angular bisectors intersect at a point for the triangles in question without doing a calculation no less complicated that the general case? Let's raise the stakes further. After some thought, we see that not only will the intersections of pairs of angle bisectors be given by rational functions of the tangents of A/2 and B/2, but the (algebraic) heights of the coefficients of these rational functions can be easily estimated, and one can therefore compute an effective lower bound on how far apart the intersections of the angle bisectors would be if they were not equal. We can then literally draw the triangles on a piece of physical paper using a protractor, and verify by eyesight that the angle bisectors appear to coincide to within the necessary accuracy. After rigorously estimating the experimental errors, we can write qed.
The other day by chance I happened to look at Richard Kenyon's web page, and was struck by a very beautiful animated image there. The image is of a region tiled by colored squares, which are slowly rotating. As the squares rotate, they change size in such a way that the new (skewed, resized) squares still tile the same region. I thought it might be fun to try to guess how the image was constructed, and to produce my own version of his image.
This morning I was playing trains with my son Felix. At the moment he is much more interested in laying the tracks than putting the trains on and moving them around, but he doesn't tend to get concerned about whether the track closes up to make a loop. The pieces of track are all roughly the following shape:
In this post, I will cover triangles and area in spaces of constant (nonzero) curvature. We are focused on hyperbolic space, but we will talk about spheres and the Gauss-Bonnet theorem.
1. Triangles in Hyperbolic Space
Suppose we are given 3 points in hyperbolic space . A triangle with these points as vertices is a set of three geodesic segments with these three points as endpoints. The fact that there is a unique triangle requires a (brief) proof. Consider the hyperboloid model: three points on the hyperboloid determine a unique 3-dimensional real subspace of which contains these three points plus the origin. Intersecting this subspace with the hyperboloid gives a copy of , so we only have to check there is a unique triangle in . For this, consider the Klein model: triangles are euclidean triangles, so there is only one with a given three vertices.
In hyperbolic space, it is still true that knowing enough side lengths and/or angles of a triangles determines it. For example, knowing two side lengths and the angle between them determines the triangle. Similarly, knowing all the angles determines it. However, not every set of angles can be realized (in euclidean space, for example, the angles must add to ), and the inequalities which must be satisfied are more complicated for hyperbolic space.
2. Ideal Triangles and Area Theorems
We can think about moving one (or more) of the points of a hyperbolic triangle off to infinity (the boundary of the disk). An ideal triangle is one with all three "vertices" (the vertices do not exist in hyperbolic space) on the boundary. Using a conformal map of the disk (which is an isometry of hyperbolic space), we can move any three points on the boundary to any other three points, so up to isometry, there is only one ideal triangle. We have fixed our metric, so we can find the area of this triangle. The logically consistent way to find this is with an integral since we will use this fact in our proof sketch of Gauss-Bonnet, but as a remark, suppose we know Gauss-Bonnet. Imagine a triangle very close to ideal. The curvature is , and the euler characteristic is . The sum of the exterior angles is just slightly under , so using Gauss-Bonnet, the area is very close to , and goes to as we push the vertices off to infinity.
One note is that suppose we know what the geodesics are, and we know what the area of an ideal triangle is (suppose we just defined it to be without knowing the curvature). Then by pasting together ideal triangles, as we will see, we could find the area of any triangle. That is, really the key to understanding area is knowing the area of an ideal triangle.
As mentioned above, there is a single triangle, up to isometry, with given angles, so denote the triangle with angles by .
2.1. Area
Knowing the area of an ideal triangle allows us to calculate the area of any triangle. In fact:
Theorem 1 (Gauss)
This geometric proof relies on the fact that the angles in the Poincare model are the euclidean angles in the model. Consider the generic picture:
We have extended the sides of and drawn the ideal triangle containing these geodesics. Since the angles are what they look like, we know that the area of is the area of the ideal triangle (), minus the sum of the areas of the smaller triangles with two points at infinity:
Thus it suffices to show that .
For this fact, we need another picture:
Define . The picture shows that the area of the left triangle (with two vertices at infinity and one near the origin) plus the area of the right triangle is the area of the top triangle plus the area of the (ideal) bottom triangle:
We also know some boundary conditions on : we know (this is a degenerate triangle) and (this is an ideal triangle). We therefore conclude that
And we can find by observing that
Similarly, if we know , then
And by subtracting , we find that . By induction, then, if is a dyadic rational times . This is a dense set, so we know for all by continuity. This proves the theorem.
3. Triangles On Spheres
We can find a similar formula for triangles on spheres. A lune is a wedge of a sphere:
A lune.
Since the area of a lune is proportional to the angle at the peak, and the lune with angle has area , the lune with angle has area . Now consider the following picture:
Notice that each corner of the triangle gives us two lunes (the lunes for are shown) and that there is an identical triangle on the rear of the sphere. If we add up the area of all 6 lunes associated with the corners, we get the total area of the sphere, plus twice the area of both triangles since we have triple-counted them. In other words:
4. Gauss-Bonnet
If we encouter a triangle of constant curvature , then we can scale the problem to one of the two formulas we just computed, so
This formula allows us to give a slightly handwavy, but accurate, proof of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem, which relates topological information (Euler characteristic) to geometric information (area and curvature). The proof will precede the statement, since this is really a discussion.
Suppose we have any closed Riemannian manifold (surface) . The surface need not have constant curvature. Suppose for the time being it has no boundary. Triangulate it with very small triangles such that and . Then since the deviation between the curvature and the curvature at the midpoint is times the distance from the midpoint,
For each triangle , we can form a comparison triangle with the same edge lengths and constant curvature . Using the formula from the beginning of this section, we can rewrite the right hand side of the formula above, so
Now since the curvature deviates by times the distance from the midpoint, the angles in deviate from those in just slightly:
So we have
Therefore, summing over all triangles,
The right hand side is just the total angle sum. Since the angle sum around each vertex in the triangulation is ,
Where is the number of vertices, and is the number of triangles. The number of edges, , can be calculated from the number of triangles, since there are edges for each triangle, and they are each double counted, so . Rewriting the equation,
Taking the mesh size to zero, we get the Gauss-Bonnet theorem .
4.1. Variants of Gauss-Bonnet
- If is compact with totally geodesic boundary, then the formula still holds, which can be shown by doubling the surface, applying the theorem to the doubled surface, and finding that euler characteristic also doubles.
- If has geodesic boundary with corners, thenWhere the turning angle is the angle you would turn tracing the shape from the outside. That is, it is , where is the interior angle.
- Most generally, if has smooth boundary with corners, then we can approximate the boundary with totally geodesic segments; taking the length of these segments to zero gives us geodesic curvature ():
4.2. Examples
- The Euler characteristic of the round disk in the plane is , and the disk has zero curvature, so . The geodesic curvature is constant, and the circumference is , so , so .
- A polygon in the plane has no curvature nor geodesic curvature, so .
The Gauss-Bonnet theorem constrains the geometry in any space with nonzero curvature. This the "reason" similarities which don't preserve length and/or area exist in euclidean space; it has curvature zero.
I am Alden, one of Danny's students. Error/naivete that may (will) be found here is mine. In these posts, I will attempt to give notes from Danny's class on hyperbolic geometry (157b). This first post covers some models for hyperbolic space.
1. Models
We have a very good natural geometric understanding of , i.e. 3-space with the euclidean metric. Pretty much all of our geometric and topological intuition about manifolds (Riemannian or not) comes from finding some reasonable way to embed or immerse them (perhaps locally) in . Let us look at some examples of 2-manifolds.
- Example (curvature = 1) with its standard metric embeds in ; moreover, any isometry of is the restriction of (exactly one) isometry of the ambient space (this group of isometries being ). We could not ask for anything more from an embedding.
- Example (curvature = 0) Planes embed similarly.
- Example (curvature = -1) The pseudosphere gives an example of an isometric embedding of a manifold with constant curvature -1. Consider a person standing in the plane at the origin. The person holds a string attached to a rock at , and they proceed to walk due east dragging the rock behind them. The movement of the rock is always straight towards the person, and its distance is always 1 (the string does not stretch). The line traced out by the rock is a tractrix. Draw a right triangle with hypotenuse the tangent line to the curve and vertical side a vertical line to the -axis. The bottom has length , which shows that the tractrix is the solution to the differential equation
The Tractrix
The surface of revolution about the -axis is the pseudosphere, an isometric embedding of a surface of constant curvature -1. Like the sphere, there are some isometries of the pseudosphere that we can understand as isometries of , namely rotations about the -axis. However, there are lots of isometries which do not extend, so this embeddeding does not serve us all that well.
- Example (hyperbolic space) By the Nash embedding theorem, there is a immersion of in , but by Hilbert, there is no immersion of any complete hyperbolic surface.That last example is the important one to consider when thinking about hypobolic spaces. Intuitively, manifolds with negative curvature have a hard time fitting in euclidean space because volume grows too fast — there is not enough room for them. The solution is to find (local, or global in the case of ) models for hyperbolic manfolds such that the geometry is distorted from the usual euclidean geometry, but the isometries of the space are clear.
2. 1-Dimensional Models for Hyperbolic Space
While studying 1-dimensional hyperbolic space might seem simplistic, there are nice models such that higher dimensions are simple generalizations of the 1-dimensional case, and we have such a dimensional advantage that our understanding is relatively easy.
2.1. Hyperboloid Model
Consider the quadratic form on defined by , where . This doesn't give a norm, since is not positive definite, but we can still ask for the set of points with . This is (both sheets of) the hyperbola . Let be the upper sheet of the hyperbola. This will be 1-dimensional hyperbolic space.
For any matrix , let . That is, matrices which preserve the form given by . The condition is equivalent to requiring that . Notice that if we let be the identity matrix, we would get the regular orthogonal group. We define , where has positive eigenvalues and negative eigenvalues. Thus . We similarly define to be matricies of determinant 1 preserving , and to be the connected component of the identity. is then the group of matrices preserving both orientation and the sheets of the hyperbolas.
We can find an explicit form for the elements of . Consider the matrix . Writing down the equations and gives us four equations, which we can solve to get the solutions
Since we are interested in the connected component of the identity, we discard the solution on the right. It is useful to do a change of variables , so we have (recall that ).
These matrices take to . In other words, acts transitively on with trivial stabilizers, and in particular we have parmeterizing maps
The first map is actually a Lie group isomorphism (with the group action on being ) in addition to a diffeomorphism, since
As mentioned above, is not positive definite, but its restriction to the tangent space of is. We can see this in the following way: tangent vectors at a point are characterized by the form . Specifically, , since (by a calculation) . Therefore, takes tangent vectors to tangent vectors and preserves the form (and is transitive), so we only need to check that the form is positive definite on one tangent space. This is obvious on the tangent space to the point . Thus, is a Riemannian manifold, and acts by isometries.
Let's use the parameterization . The unit (in the metric) tangent at is . The distance between the points and is
In other words, is an isometry from to .
1-dimensional hyperbollic space. The hyperboloid model is shown in blue, and the projective model is shown in red. An example of the projection map identifying with is shown.
2.2. Projective Model
Real projective space is the set of lines through the origin in . We can think about as , where is associated with the line (point in ) intersecting in , and is the horizontal line. There is a natural projection by projecting a point to the line it is on. Under this projection, maps to .
Since acts on preserving the lines , it gives a projective action on fixing the points . Now suppose we have any projective linear isomorphism of fixing . The isomorphism is represented by a matrix with eigenvectors . Since scaling preserves its projective class, we may assume it has determinant 1. Its eigenvalues are thus and . The determinant equation, plus the fact that
Implies that is of the form of a matrix in . Therefore, the projective linear structure on is the "same" (has the same isometry (isomorphism) group) as the hyperbolic (Riemannian) structure on .
Clearly, we're going to use the pushforward metric under the projection of to , but it turns out that this metric is a natural choice for other reasons, and it has a nice expression.
The map taking to is . The hyperbolic distance between and in is then (by the fact from the previous sections that is an isometry).
Recall the fact that . Applying this, we get the nice form
We also recall the cross ratio, for which we fix notation as . Then
Call the numerator of that fraction by and the denominator by . Then, recalling that , we have
Therefore, .
3. Hilbert Metric
Notice that the expression on the right above has nothing, a priori, to do with the hyperbolic projection. In fact, for any open convex body in , we can define the Hilbert metric on by setting , where and are the intersections of the line through and with the boundary of . How is it possible to take the cross ratio, since are not numbers? The line containing all of them is projectively isomorphic to , which we can parameterize as . The cross ratio does not depend on the choice of parameterization, so it is well defined. Note that the Hilbert metric is not necessarily a Riemannian metric, but it does make any open convex set into a metric space.
Therefore, we see that any open convex body in has a natural metric, and the hyperbolic metric in agrees with this metric when is thought of as a open convex set in .
4. Higher-Dimensional Hyperbolic Space
4.1. Hyperboloid
The higher dimensional hyperbolic spaces are completely analogous to the 1-dimensional case. Consider with the basis and the 2-form . This is the form defined by the matrix . Define to be the positive (positive in the direction) sheet of the hyperbola .
Let be the linear transformations preserving the form, so . This group is generated by as symmetries of the plane, together with as symmetries of the span of the (this subspace is euclidean). The group is the set of orientation preserving elements of which preserve the positive sheet of the hyperboloid (). This group acts transitively on with point stabilizers : this is easiest to see by considering the point . Here the stabilizer is clearly , and because acts transitively, any stabilizer is a conjugate of this.
As in the 1-dimensional case, the metric on is , which is invariant under .
Geodesics in can be understood by consdering the fixed point sets of isometries, which are always totally geodesic. Here, reflection in a vertical (containing ) plane restricts to an (orientation-reversing, but that's ok) isometry of , and the fixed point set is obviously the intersection of this plane with . Now is transitive on , and it sends planes to planes in , so we have a bijection
{Totally geodesic subspaces through } {linear subspaces of through }
By considering planes through , we can see that these totally geodesic subspaces are isometric to lower dimensional hyperbolic spaces.
4.2. Projective
Analogously, we define the projective model as follows: consider the disk . I.e. the points in the plane inside the cone . We can think of as , so this disk is . There is, as before, the natural projection of to , and the pushforward of the hyperbolic metric agrees with the Hilbert metric on as an open convex body in .
Geodesics in the projective model are the intersections of planes in with ; that is, they are geodesics in the euclidean space spanned by the . One interesting consequence of this is that any theorem which is true in euclidean geometry which does not reply on facts about angles is still true for hyperbolic space. For example, Pappus' hexagon theorem, the proof of which does not use angles, is true.
4.3. Projective Model in Dimension 2
In the case that , we can understand the projective isomorphisms of by looking at their actions on the boundary . The set is projectively isomorphic to as an abstract manifold, but it should be noted that is not a straight line in , which would be the most natural way to find 's embedded in .
In addition, any projective isomorphism of can be extended to a real projective isomorphism of . In other words, we can understand isometries of 2-dimensional hyperbolic space by looking at the action on the boundary. Since is not a straight line, the extension is not trivial. We now show how to do this.
The automorphisms of are . We will consider . For any Lie group , there is an Adjoint action defined by (the derivative of) conjugation. We can similarly define an adjoint action by the Lie algebra on itself, as for any path with . If the tangent vectors and are matrices, then .
We can define the Killing form on the Lie algebra by . Note that is a matrix, so this makes sense, and the Lie group acts on the tangent space (Lie algebra) preserving this form.
Now let's look at specifically. A basis for the tangent space (Lie algebra) is , , and . We can check that , , and . Using these relations plus the antisymmetry of the Lie bracket, we know
Therefore, the matrix for the Killing form in this basis is
This matrix has 2 positive eigenvalues and one negative eigenvalue, so its signature is . Since acts on preserving this form, we have , otherwise known at the group of isometries of the disk in projective space , otherwise known as .
Any element of (which, recall, was acting on the boundary of projective hyperbolic space ) therefore extends to an element of , the isometries of hyperbolic space, i.e. we can extend the action over the disk.
This means that we can classify isometries of 2-dimensional hyperbolic space by what they do to the boundary, which is determined generally by their eigevectors ( acts on by projecting the action on , so an eigenvector of a matrix corresponds to a fixed line in , so a fixed point in . For a matrix , we have the following:
- (elliptic) In this case, there are no real eigenvalues, so no real eigenvectors. The action here is rotation, which extends to a rotation of the entire disk.
- (parabolic) There is a single real eigenvector. There is a single fixed point, to which all other points are attracted (in one direction) and repelled from (in the other). For example, the action in projective coordinates sending to : infinity is such a fixed point.
- (hyperbolic) There are two fixed point, one attracting and one repelling.
5. Complex Hyperbolic Space
We can do a construction analogous to real hyperbolic space over the complexes. Define a Hermitian form on with coordinates by . We will also refer to as . The (complex) matrix for this form is , where . Complex linear isomorphisms preserving this form are matrices such that . This is our definition for , and we define to be those elements of with determinant of norm 1.
The set of points such that is not quite what we are looking for: first it is a real dimensional manifold (not as we would like for whatever our definition of "complex hyperbolic space" is), but more importantly, does not restrict to a positive definite form on the tangent spaces. Call the set of points where by . Consider a point in and in . As with the real case, by the fact that is in the tangent space,
Because is hermitian, the expression on the right does not mean that , but it does mean that is purely imaginary. If , then , i.e. is not positive definite on the tangent spaces.
However, we can get rid of this negative definite subspace. as the complex numbers of unit length (or , say) acts on by multiplying coordinates, and this action preserves : any phase goes away when we apply the absolute value. The quotient of by this action is . The isometry group of this space is still , but now there are point stabilizers because of the action of . We can think of inside as the diagonal matrices, so we can write
And the projectivized matrices is the group of isometries of , where the middle is all vectors in with (which we think of as part of complex projective space). We can also approach this group by projectivizing, since that will get rid of the unwanted point stabilizers too: we have .
5.1. Case
In the case , we can actually picture . We can't picture the original , but we are looking at the set of such that . Notice that . After projectivizing, we may divide by , so . The set of points which satisfy this is the interior of the unit circle, so this is what we think of for . The group of complex projective isometries of the disk is . The straight horizontal line is a geodesic, and the complex isometries send circles to circles, so the geodesics in are circles perpendicular to the boundary of in .
Imagine the real projective model as a disk sitting at height one, and the geodesics are the intersections of planes with the disk. Complex hyperbolic space is the upper hemisphere of a sphere of radius one with equator the boundary of real hyperbolic space. To get the geodesics in complex hyperbolic space, intersect a plane with this upper hemisphere and stereographically project it flat. This gives the familiar Poincare disk model.
5.2. Real 's contained in
contains 2 kinds of real hyperbolic spaces. The subset of real points in is (real) , so we have a many . In addition, we have copies of , which, as discussed above, has the same geometry (i.e. has the same isometry group) as real . However, these two real hyperbolic spaces are not isometric. the complex hyperbolic space has a more negative curvature than the real hyperbolic spaces. If we scale the metric on so that the real hyperbolic spaces have curvature , then the copies of will have curvature .
In a similar vein, there is a symplectic structure on such that the real are lagrangian subspaces (the flattest), and the are symplectic, the most negatively curved.
An important thing to mention is that complex hyperbolic space does not have constant curvature(!).
6. Poincare Disk Model and Upper Half Space Model
The projective models that we have been dealing with have many nice properties, especially the fact that geodesics in hyperbolic space are straight lines in projective space. However, the angles are wrong. There are models in which the straight lines are "curved" i.e. curved in the euclidean metric, but the angles between them are accurate. Here we are interested in a group of isometries which preserves angles, so we are looking at a conformal model. Dimension 2 is special, because complex geometry is real conformal geometry, but nevertheless, there is a model of in which the isometries of the space are conformal.
Consider the unit disk in dimensions. The conformal automorphisms are the maps taking (straight) diameters and arcs of circles perpendicular to the boundary to this same set. This model is abstractly isomorphic to the Klein model in projective space. Imagine the unit disk in a flat plane of height one with an upper hemisphere over it. The geodesics in the Klein model are the intersections of this flat plane with subspaces (so they are straight lines, for example, in dimension 2). Intersecting vertical planes with the upper hemisphere and stereographically projecting it flat give geodesics in the Poincare disk model. The fact that this model is the "same" (up to scaling the metric) as the example above of is a (nice) coincidence.
The Klein model is the flat disk inside the sphere, and the Poincare disk model is the sphere. Geodesics in the Klein model are intersections of subspaces (the angled plane) with the flat plane at height 1. Geodesics in the Poincare model are intersections of vertical planes with the upper hemisphere. The two darkened geodesics, one in the Klein model and one in the Poincare, correspond under orthogonal projection. We get the usual Poincare disk model by stereographically projecting the upper hemisphere to the disk. The projection of the geodesic is shown as the curved line inside the disk
The Poincare disk model. A few geodesics are shown.
Now we have the Poincare disk model, where the geodesics are straight diameters and arcs of circles perpendicular to the boundary and the isometries are the conformal automorphisms of the unit disk. There is a conformal map from the disk to an open half space (we typically choose to conformally identify it with the upper half space). Conveniently, the hyperbolic metric on the upper half space can be expressed at a point (euclidean coordinates) as . I.e. the hyperbolic metric is just a rescaling (at each point) of the euclidean metric.
One of the important things that we wanted in our models was the ability to realize isometries of the model with isometries of the ambient space. In the case of a one-parameter family of isometries of hyperbolic space, this is possible. Suppose that we have a set of elliptic isometries. Then in the disk model, we can move that point to the origin and realize the isometries by rotations. In the upper half space model, we can move the point to infinity, and realize them by translations.
Hermann Amandus Schwarz (1843-1921) was a student of Kummer and Weierstrass, and made many significant contributions to geometry, especially to the fields of minimal surfaces and complex analysis. His mathematical creations are both highly abstract and flexible, and at the same time intimately tied to explicit and practical calculation.
I learned about Schwarz-Christoffel transformations, Schwarzian derivatives, and Schwarz's minimal surface as three quite separate mathematical objects, and I was very surprised to discover firstly that they had all been discovered by the same person, and secondly that they form parts of a consistent mathematical narrative, which I will try to explain in this post to the best of my ability. There is an instructive lesson in this example (for me), that we tend to mine the past for nuggets, examples, tricks, formulae etc. while forgetting the points of view and organizing principles that made their discovery possible. Another teachable example is that of Dehn's "invention" of combinatorial (infinite) group theory, as a natural branch of geometry; several generations of followers went about the task of reformulating Dehn's insights and ideas in the language of algebra, "generalizing" them and stripping them of their context, before geometric and topological methods were reintroduced by Milnor, Schwarz (a different one this time), Stallings, Thurston, Gromov and others to spectacular effect (note: I have the second-hand impression that the geometric point of view in group theory (and every other subject) was never abandoned in the Soviet Union).
Schwarz's minimal surface (also called "Schwarz's D surface", and sometimes "Schwarz's H surface") is an extraordinarily beautiful triply-periodic minimal surface of infinite genus that is properly embedded in . According to Nitsche's excellent book (p.240), this minimal surface closely resembles the separating wall between inorganic and organic materials in the skeleton of a starfish. The basic building block of the surface can be described as follows. If the vertices of a cube are -colored, the black vertices are the vertices of a regular tetrahedron. Let denote the quadrilateral formed by four edges of this tetrahedron; then a fundamental piece of Schwarz's surface is a minimal disk spanning :
The surface may be "analytically continued" by rotating through an angle around each boundary edge. Six copies of fit smoothly around each vertex, and the resulting surface extends (triply) periodically throughout space.
The symmetries of enable us to give it several descriptions as a Riemann surface. Firstly, we could think of as a polygon in the hyperbolic plane with four edges of equal length, and angles . Twelve copies of can be assembled to make a hyperbolic surface of genus . Thinking of a surface of genus as the boundary of a genus handlebody defines a homomorphism from to , thought of as ; the cover associated to the kernel is (conformally) the triply periodic Schwarz surface, and the deck group acts on as a lattice (of index in the face-centered cubic lattice).
Another description is as follows. Since the deck group acts by translation, the Gauss map from to factors through a map . The map is injective at each point in the interior or on an edge of a copy of , but has an order branch point at each vertex. Thus, the map is a double-branched cover, with one branch point of order at each vertex of a regular inscribed cube. This leads one to think (like a late 19th century mathematician) of as the Riemann surface on which a certain multi-valued function on is single-valued. Under stereographic projection, the vertices of the cube map to the eight points where . These eight points are the roots of the polynomial , so we may think of as the hyperelliptic Riemann surface defined by the equation ; equivalently, as the surface on which the multi-valued (on ) function is single-valued.
The function is known as the Weierstrass function associated to , and an explicit formula for the co-ordinates of the embedding were found by Enneper and Weierstrass. After picking a basepoint (say ) on the sphere, the coordinates are given by integration:
The integral in each case depends on the path, and lifts to a single-valued function precisely on .
Geometrically, the three coordinate functions are harmonic functions on . This corresponds to the fact that minimal surfaces are precisely those with vanishing mean curvature, and the fact that the Laplacian of the coordinate functions (in terms of isothermal parameters on the underlying Riemann surface) can be expressed as a nonzero multiple of the mean curvature vector. A harmonic function on a Riemann surface is the real part of a holomorphic function, unique up to a constant; the holomorphic derivative of the (complexified) coordinate functions are therefore well-defined, and give holomorphic -forms which descend to (since the deck group acts by translations). These -forms satisfy the identity (this identity expresses the fact that the embedding of into via these functions is conformal). The (composition of the) Gauss map (with stereographic projection) can be read off from the , and as a meromorphic function on , it is given by the formula . Define a function on by the formula . Then are the coordinates of a rational map from into which extends to a map into , by sending each zero of to in the at infinity. Symmetry allows us to identify the image with the hyperelliptic embedding from before, and we deduce that . Solving for we obtain the integrands in the formulae above.
In fact, any holomorphic function on a domain in defines a (typically immersed with branch points) minimal surface, by the integral formulae of Enneper-Weierstrass above. Suppose we want to use this fact to produce an explicit description of a minimal surface bounded by some explicit polygonal loop in . Any minimal surface so obtained can be continued across the boundary edges by rotation; if the angles at the vertices are all of the form the resulting surface closes up smoothly around the vertices, and one obtains a compact abstract Riemann surface tiled by copies of the fundamental region, together with a holonomy representation of into . Sometimes the image of this representation in the rotational part of is finite, and one obtains an infinitely periodic minimal surface as in the case of Schwarz's surface. A fundamental tile in can be uniformized as a hyperbolic polygon; equivalently, as a region in the upper half-plane bounded by arcs of semicircles perpendicular to the real axis. Since the edges of the loop are straight lines, the image of this hyperbolic polygon under the Gauss map is a region in also bounded by arcs of round circles; thus Schwarz's study of minimal surfaces naturally led him to the problem of how to explicitly describe conformal maps between regions in the plane bounded by circular arcs. This problem is solved by the Schwarz-Christoffel transformation, and its generalizations, with help from the Schwarzian derivative.
Note that if and are two such regions, then a conformal map from to can be factored as the product of a map uniformizing as the upper half-plane, followed by the inverse of a map uniformizing as the upper half-plane. So it suffices to find a conformal map when the domain is the upper half plane, decomposed into intervals and rays that are mapped to the edges of a circular polygon . Near each vertex, can be moved by a fractional linear transformation to (part of) a wedge, consisting of complex numbers with argument between and , where is the angle at . The function uniformizes the upper half-plane as such a wedge; however it is not clear how to combine the contributions from each vertex, because of the complicated interaction with the fractional linear transformation. The fundamental observation is that there are certain natural holomorphic differential operators which are insensitive to the composition of a holomorphic function with groups of fractional linear transformations, and the uniformizing map can be expressed much more simply in terms of such operators.
For example, two functions that differ by addition of a constant have the same derivative: . Functions that differ by multiplication by a constant have the same logarithmic derivative: . Putting these two observations together suggest defining the nonlinearity of a function as the composition . This has the property that for any constants . Under inversion the nonlinearity transforms by . From this, and a simple calculation, one deduces that the operator is invariant under inversion, and since it is also invariant under addition and multiplication by constants, it is invariant under the full group of fractional linear transformations. This combination is called the Schwarzian derivative; explicitly, it is given by the formula . Given the Schwarzian derivative , one may recover the nonlinearity by solving the Ricatti equation . As explained in this post, solutions of the Ricatti equation preserve the projective structure on the line; in this case, it is a complex projective structure on the complex line. Equivalently, different solutions differ by an element of , acting by fractional linear transformations, as we have just deduced. Once we know the nonlinearity, we can solve for by , the usual solution to a first order linear inhomogeneous ODE. The Schwarzian of the function is . The advantage of expressing things in these terms is that the Schwarzian of a uniformizing map for a circular polygon with angles at the vertices has the form of a rational function, with principal parts , where the and the and depend (unfortunately in a very complicated way) on the edges of (for the ugly truth, see Nehari, chapter 5). To see this, observe that the map has an order two pole near finitely many points (the preimages of the vertices of under the uniformizing map) but is otherwise holomorphic. Moreover, it can be analytically continued into the lower half plane across the interval between successive , by reflecting the image across each circular edge. After reflecting twice, the image of is transformed by a fractional linear transformation, so has an analytic continuation which is single valued on the entire Riemann sphere, with finitely many isolated poles, and is therefore a rational function! When the edges of the polygon are straight, a simpler formula involving the nonlinearity specializes to the "familiar" Schwarz-Christoffel formula.
(Update 10/22): In fact, I went to the library to refresh myself on the contents of Nehari, chapter 5. The first thing I noticed — which I had forgotten — was that if is the uniformizing map from the upper half-plane to a polygon with spherical arcs, then is real-valued on the real axis. Since it is a rational function, this implies that its nonsingular part is actually a constant; i.e.
where is as above, and are real constants (which satisfy some further conditions — really see Nehari this time for more details).
The other thing that struck me was the first paragraph of the preface, which touches on some of the issues I alluded to above:
In the preface to the first edition of Courant-Hilbert's "Methoden der mathematischen Physik", R. Courant warned against a trend discernible in modern mathematics in which he saw a menace to the future development of mathematical analysis. He was referring to the tendency of many workers in this field to lose sight of the roots of mathematical analysis in physical and geometric intuition and to concentrate their efforts on the refinement and the extreme generalization of existing concepts.
Instead of using a word like "menace", I would rather take this as a lesson about the value of returning to the points of view that led to the creation of the mathematical objects we study every day; which was (to some approximation) the point I was trying to illustrate in this post.
A beautiful identity in Euclidean geometry is the Brianchon-Gram relation (also called the Gram-Sommerville formula, or Gram's equation), which says the following: let be a convex polytope, and for each face of , let denote the solid angle along the face, as a fraction of the volume of a linking sphere. The relation then says:
Theorem (Brianchon-Gram relation): . In other words, the alternating sum of the (solid) angles of all dimensions of a convex polytope is zero.
Sketch of Proof: we prove the theorem in the case that is a simplex ; the more general case follows by generalizing to pyramids, and then decomposing any polytope into pyramids by coning to an interior point. This argument is due to Shephard.
Associated to each face is a spherical polyhedron in ; if the span of is the intersection of a family of half-spaces bounded by hyperplanes with inward normals , then is the set of unit vectors whose inner product with each is non-negative. Note further that for each there is some that pairs non-negatively with ; consequently to each one can assign a subset of indices, so that pairs non-negatively with if and only if . On the other hand, each subset determines a unique face of dimension . By the inclusion-exclusion formula, we conclude that "equals" zero, thought of as a signed union of spherical polyhedra. Since , the formula follows. qed.
Another well-known proof starts by approximating the polytope by a rational polytope (i.e. one with rational vertices). The proof then goes via Macdonald reciprocity, using generating functions.
Example: Let be a triangle, with angles . The solid angle at an interior point is , and the solid angle at each edge is . Hence we get and therefore in this case Brianchon-Gram is equivalent to the familiar angle sum identity for a triangle: .
Example: Next consider the example of a Euclidean simplex . The contribution from the interior is , and the contribution from the four facets is . There are six edges, with angles , that contribute . Each vertex contributes one spherical triangle, with (spherical) angles for certain , where each appears as a spherical angle in exactly two spherical triangles. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem implies that the area of a spherical triangle is equal to the angle sum defect: so the vertices contribute and the identity is seen to follow in this case too.
Note in fact that the usual proof of Gauss-Bonnet for a spherical triangle is done by an inclusion-exclusion argument involving overlapping lunes, that is very similar to the proof of Brianchon-Gram given above.
The sketch of proof above just as easily proves an identity in the spherical scissors congruence group. For equal to spherical, Euclidean or hyperbolic space of dimension , the scissors congruence group is the abelian group generated by formal symbols where and is a choice of orientation, modulo certain relations, namely:
- if the are contained in a hyperplane
- an odd permutation of the points induces multiplication by ; changing the orientation induces multiplication by
- if is an isometry of , then
- for any set of points, and any orientation
(Note that this definition of scissors congruence is consistent with that of Goncharov, and differs slightly from another definition consistent with Sah; this difference has to do with orientations, and has as a consequence the vanishing of spherical scissors congruence in even dimensions; whereas with Sah's definition, for each )
The argument we gave above shows that for any Euclidean simplex , we have in .
Scissors congruence satisfies several fundamental properties:
- in . To see this, "triangulate" the sphere as a pair of degenerate simplices, whose vertices lie entirely on a hyperplane.
- There is a natural multiplication ; to define it on simplices, think of as the unit sphere in . A complementary pair of subspaces and intersect in a linked pair of spheres of dimensions ; if are spherical simplices in these subspaces, the image of is the join of these two simplices in .
It follows that the polyhedra in whenever is a face of dimension at least ; for in this case, is the join of a spherical simplex with a sphere of some dimension, and is therefore trivial in spherical scissors congruence. Hence the identity above simplifies to in .
One nice application is to extend the definition of Dehn invariants to ideal hyperbolic simplices. We recall the definition of the usual Dehn invariant. Given a simplex , for each face we let denote the spherical polyhedron equal to the intersection of with the link of . Then . Ideal scissors congruence makes sense for ideal hyperbolic simplices, except in dimension one (where it is degenerate). For ideal hyperbolic simplices (i.e. those with some vertices at infinity), the formula above for Dehn invariant is adequate, except for the -dimensional faces (i.e. the edges) . This problem is solved by the following "regularization" procedure due to Thurston: put a disjoint horoball at each ideal vertex of , and replace each infinite edge by the finite edge which is the intersection of with the complement of the union of horoballs; hence one obtains terms of the form in . This definition apparently depends on the choice of horoballs. However, if are two different horoballs, the difference is a sum of terms of the form where is constant, and ranges over the edges sharing the common ideal vertex. The intersection of with a horosphere is a Euclidean simplex , and the are exactly the spherical polyhedra as ranges over the vertices of . By what we have shown above, the sum is trivial in scissors congruence; it follows that is well-defined.
For more general ideal polyhedra (and finite volume complete hyperbolic manifolds) one first decomposes into ideal simplices, then computes the Dehn invariant on each piece and adds. A minor variation of the usual argument on closed manifolds shows that the Dehn invariant of any complete finite-volume hyperbolic manifold vanishes.
Update(7/29/2009): It is perhaps worth remarking that the Brianchon-Gram relation can be thought of, not merely as an identity in spherical scissors congruence, but in the "bigger" spherical polytope group, in which one does not identify simplices that differ by an isometry. Incidentally, there is an interesting paper on this subject by Peter McMullen, in which he proves generalizations of Brianchon-Gram(-Sommerville), working explicitly in the spherical polytope group. He introduces what amounts to a generalization of the Dehn invariant, with domain the Euclidean translational scissors congruence group, and range a sum of tensor products of Euclidean translational scissors congruence (in lower dimensions) with spherical polytope groups. It appears, from the paper, that McMullen was aware of the classical Dehn invariant (in any case, he was aware of Sah's book) but he does not refer to it explicitly.


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Jennifer A. Lewis
- Research Statement:
- Professor Lewis research focuses on the design and assembly of soft functional materials. Her groups efforts are divided into three intertwining thrusts: (1) design and characterization of complex fluids, (2) guided fluidic assembly of colloidal systems, and (3) direct-write assembly of planar and three-dimensional architectures.
Lewis first principal achievement is her pioneering work on the direct-write assembly of soft functional materials. Specifically, she and her research group have designed several novel inks for patterning three-dimensional materials at the microscale. Her first papers in this area appeared in Langmuir (2002) and Advanced Materials (2002) and focused on the use of concentrated colloidal gels as inks for direct writing of 3D periodic lattices. This effort was cited as one of the top 7 discoveries in materials chemistry by C&E News in their year-in-review edition. Building on this general approach, she and her collaborators have created ferroelectric (PZT-polymer) composites, hydroxyapatite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, and interpenetrating alumina/Al composites for structural applications. Recently, she has greatly extended this effort through the design of concentrated silver nanoparticle inks, which enable the omnidirectional printing of flexible, stretchable and spanning microelectrodes for electronic and optoelectronic devices (Science, 2009; Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2009). In addition to printing out-of-plane architectures, she has also recently advanced a new concept for fabricating complex 3D architectures, known as printed origami (Advanced Materials, 2010). In this approach, a new class of colloidal inks have been developed that are capable of printing of planar scaffolds that can be subsequently folded using a wet-folding origami technique. By integrating these two approaches, 3D structures are created that could simply not be fabricated by other means.
Importantly, Lewis work in direct-write assembly of soft functional materials extends far beyond colloidal-based systems. As one example, she has designed fugitive organic inks for patterning 3D microfluidic devices (Nature Materials, 2003; Advanced Materials, 2005), self-healing polymeric skin with embedded microvascular networks (Nature Materials, 2007; Advanced Materials, 2009), and biomimetic microvascular networks (Soft Matter, 2010). A patent will soon be awarded on this approach. In addition, the collaborative effort on self-healing polymeric skin received a SciAm50 Award from Scientific American.
Lewis also pioneered the use of concentrated polyelectrolyte complexes as novel inks for patterning 3D microperiodic structures (Nature, 2004). For this ink design, she drew inspiration from nature in the form of spider silk and web spinning. A patent was issued on this discovery entitled Directed Assembly of Three-Dimensional Structures with Micron-Scale Features," US Patent# 7,141,617. She also demonstrated that these polyelectrolyte scaffolds could be used as templates for 3D photonic crystals (Advanced Materials, 2006; 2007) and biomimetic mineralization (Soft Matter, 2007). This research then led to the collaborative development of silk fibroin inks for direct-write assembly of 1D polymer waveguides (Advanced Materials, 2009) and 3D tissue engineering scaffolds (Advanced Functional Materials, 2008). Very recently, she has created a new class of hydrogel-based inks for patterning 3D micro-periodic scaffolds for robust cell cultures (Advanced Materials, 2008). She and her collaborators are now investigating this novel platform for culturing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). Finally, she and her team have created concentrated sol-gel inks for printing 3D photonic crystals (Advanced Materials, 2007) and transparent conducting oxide microelectrodes for printed electronics (Chemical Communications, 2010).
Collectively, her research on direct-write assembly of soft functional materials has led to more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, 9 invited review articles and book chapters, 3 patents issued (covering 3D printed structures from colloidal, polyelectrolyte, and fugitive organic inks) and 2 patents filed (covering 3D printed structures from conductive nanoparticle and sol-gel inks). Her research in this area has been featured in 10 cover articles, including those appearing in PNAS (1), Advanced Materials (4), Advanced Functional Materials (1), Langmuir (1), Soft Matter (2), and Materials Today (1). Her direct-writing research has also garnered considerable attention in scientific journals and the popular press with feature stories appearing in Science, Nature Materials, Chemical and Engineering News, Scientific American, Technology Review, and The Economist to name a few. Her work in this area is being transitioned to the commercial sector through funded efforts with two well-established companies with interests in colloidal and fugitive ink writing, respectively.
Lewis second principal achievement is her seminal work on colloidal stabilization and assembly. Nearly a decade ago, she discovered a new colloidal stabilization mechanism, known as nanoparticle haloing (Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2001; cover article), which arises in binary mixtures composed of negligibly charged microspheres and highly charged nanoparticles. She then used these novel mixtures to assemble colloidal crystals via an epitaxial templating approach (Langmuir, 2004); and, more recently, to create patterned colloidal films via evaporative lithographic patterning of colloidal films (Physical Review Letters, 2007; Langmuir, 2008; Phil. Trans. A., 2009; Editors Choice, Science Magazine, 2009).
Under support from W.R. Grace (2001-04), she led a project that provided new insight into the mechanisms by which comb polymer dispersants, known as superplasticizers, give rise to improved cement paste formulations and rheology. She and her PhD student, Glen Kirby, received the Brunauer Award from the American Ceramic Society, Division of Cement Materials in 2003 in recognition of this work. The impact of this discovery is in fact far broader, since comb polymer dispersants have proven to be highly effective in stabilizing a wide range of colloidal suspensions (J. Am. Ceram. Soc., 2004; Langmuir, 2006; 2009). A patent was issued on this discovery entitled Controlled Dispersion of Colloidal Suspension by Comb Polymers, US Patent #7,053,125.
Collectively, her research on colloidal stabilization and assembly has led to nearly 30 peer-reviewed journal papers and 4 invited review articles. Of these, her work has been featured in 5 cover articles, including those appearing in PNAS (1), Advanced Materials (1), Langmuir (1), and Journal of the American Ceramic Society (2). This research has also garnered considerable attention in scientific journals and the popular press with feature stories appearing in Science, Chemical and Engineering News, and Photonics Spectra.
- Research Interests:
- Direct-write assembly, complex fluids, microfluidics, photonics, colloids, rheology
- Materials Assembly, Complex Fluids, and Mesoscale Fabrication
- For more information:
- Lewis Group website
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Teaching:
- Outstanding Advisors List
- Burnett Teaching Award
- Daily Illinis Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by Their Students
Honors, Recognition, and Outstanding Achievements for Research:
- MRS Medal
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, Materials Research Society
- George Weatherly Lecture Composites at Lake Louise
- Keynote Lecture Australian Interface and Colloids Science Meeting
- Keynote Lecture American Chemical Society Colloids Meeting
- Langmuir Lecture Award, American Chemical Society
- MIT DMSE Visiting Committee Member
- Keynote Lecture International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science
- Penn Engineering Grace Hopper Lecture
- Plenary Talk, Society of Rheology
- Plenary Talk, Composites at Lake Louise
- SciAm50, research on self-healing materials with embedded microvascular networks
- Fellow, American Physical Society
- Meeting Chair, 2007 Spring MRS Meeting
- Plenary Talk, International Conference on Ceramic Processing Science
- Featured Public Lecture, Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
- NSF Advance Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society
- International Editorial Advisory Board Member, Soft Matter
- Hans Thurnauer Professorship
- Research highlighted in Science&Vie as a nanoscience image of the year
- Brunauer Award, American Ceramic Society
- Editorial Advisory Board Member, Langmuir
- External Advisor, Unilever
- Keynote Lecture, Shaping of Advanced Ceramics, Belgium
- Willett Faculty Scholar Award
- Research cited by C&E News as 2002 highlight
- Xerox Award for Faculty Research
- University Scholar Award
- NAE Frontiers of Engineering, Invited Participant
- Allied Signal Foundation Award
- Associate Editor, Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- Xerox Award for Junior Faculty Research
- MRS Travel Award for Young Scientists, International Conf. on Advanced Materials
- Schlumberger Foundation Award
- Arnold O. Beckman Research Award
- NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award
- NSF Research Initiation Award


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f you haven't seen it by now, you will soon, either at the grocery store or the airport or anywhere else that sells Sports Illustrated. Their new cover doesn't feature an NBA player, Tiger Woods on his apology tour, or Olympic darling Lindsey Vonn. It is an Olympian, but it's not even an American -- and for SI, how sacrilegious is that?
It's Sidney Crosby.
The sound you just heard was magazine covers being ripped up in Philadelphia and Washington DC.
When Crosby scored the gold-medal winning goal, I posted that his fans and haters probably grew equally. After seeing the adoration that the mainstream media showered on Crosby (the non-stop NBC camera shots, the SI cover, etc.), I'm guessing those haters now outweigh the fans. The Crosby hype machine was working overdrive, though in all fairness, none of that was actually decided by Crosby.
It's filtering into mainstream media. Take these two examples of newspaper columns by guys who've probably never even seen a puck before. From Jeremy Solomon, columnist for Hearst Newspapers (owners of the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, and other newspapers):
You could say that Crosby - handsome, rich, supremely talented - has been smiled on by the gods. On Sunday, the gods from Mount Olympus joined the hockey gods in one huge Crosby grin, as the already famous forward moved from superstar to legend status at 22.
Wow. A bit of an exaggeration, maybe? Look, we all know that Crosby is one of the most talented guys in the league. In fact, he's probably on an elite level only shared by Alex Ovechkin. He's got a pretty complete game, works hard, and seems to add something new to his skill set each season. A legend? Perhaps a legendary moment, but I wouldn't put him in that category yet.
Crosby haters, if that doesn't turn your stomach, this will. Scott Ostler, SF Chronicle sports columnist obviously never covers hockey -- the word "Sharks" shows up exactly six times in a year-long search of his archive. In fact, the Chronicle doesn't really cover the San Jose Sharks that extensively -- they let go of their beat writer a few years back when they downsized. Ostler did, however, cover the Olympics. When it came to hockey, he led his recap of the gold medal game with this joke:
Wise-guy question: Which sport has the most accidents? Answer: Hockey. They're called goals.
Yeech. Well, Ostler does wind up showing appreciation for the game and the sport. As for Crosby? Ostler may still have some drool on his mouth.
It was far beyond cool, then, when the biggest game in the history of hockey was decided by the greatest player on a goal that was as non-fluky and as brilliantly executed as any play ever performed at the ultimate moment by Jordan or Bonds or Manning or Federer.
It was the "The Starry Night" of hockey goals-so beautiful, so obvious, so difficult and so simple that anyone could appreciate it.
Let's leave Barry Bonds and his inflated head out of this, but Michael Jordan or Roger Federer? Those guys are obviously among the greatest, if not the absolute greatest, athletes in their respective sports. And Ostler is comparing Crosby to them.
Congratulations, NHL marketing. You've finally done your job well. The mainstream media, those eyes that you've so desperately wanted to win over for so long, have bought into the notion that Sidney Crosby is on par with the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, and Bobby Orr.
Now, before Crosby fans come out to defend him, please understand this: I actually like the guy. I sure as hell wish he was on my team, and I think that his work ethic on and off the ice has brought him to a level that few can achieve. He's a surefire Hall of Famer, one of the best players of his generation, and may wind up being in that rare category of best players of all time -- but near the top of that list? No way. Perhaps after all is said and done, he'll be in the 10-20 range, but there's simply no way he'll match what guys like Gretzky or Orr brought to the table.
That's not a knock on Crosby by any means. It's just understanding the difference between perception and reality. I'm guessing if you took away the media and the hype, if that never existed and you just had Sidney Crosby as a hockey player, most fans would respect or like him. But when you bring the Gretzky tag when the talent is more comparable to, say, Jaromir Jagr, fans get irritated.
And now, more than ever, the mainstream media is buying into the hype. It's pretty irritating, but if you take a step back, you have to wonder: could it actually be good for the game?
No single person is greater than the sport, but having a face and a presence out to capture the casual fans' attention and the media spotlight is a good thing. It helps that Crosby is humble, works hard, and at least has a pretty decorated resume to lend some credibility to the perception that he's the best player in the sport -- I mean, let's face it, even begrudging hockey fans will admit he's in the top five, perhaps even number one on any given night. It'd be far different if he was merely another point-per-game first liner.
So he's got the chops to earn most, but not all, of his distorted reputation among non-hockey folks. Irritating as that might be to many hockey fans, here's a guy who has done the near-impossible -- he's been able to reach into the mainstream and be a viable, relevant face. If Crosby's presence can grow the game to people who normally wouldn't know Steve Yzerman from Stephen Weiss, how can that be frowned open?
A few years back, I was at a San Jose Sharks playoff game with a friend and I complained about how HP Pavilion just got so damn crowded during the playoffs. All the bandwagon fans crawled out of the woodwork even though the only guys on the team they knew were Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau. I'd shake my head and bemoan the idiots that surrounded me. My friend raised a Spock-ian eyebrow at me and said in a very matter-of-fact voice, "You're always trying to convince people how great hockey is. Now more people are watching it and you're complaining about it? Don't you want people to like hockey?"
The simplicity of his question was a punch in the gut. Yes, of course I wanted people to like hockey. We know it's the greatest game, we know why it's the greatest game, and we'll preach it to the ends of the earth. If it meant that there were more bandwagon fans during the playoffs, then so be it -- because those bandwagon fans could turn into dedicated fans once they were exposed to the speed and skill of the game.
I look at the Crosby situation the same way. I know he's not Gretzky, you know he's not Gretzky, but Joe Blow reading Sports Illustrated in New Mexico may buy into it. Ok, so it's not our preferred way of exposing him to the game, but it comes down to the simple question: do you want more people to like hockey? I do. And because of that, I'm willing to accept that some guy who never watches the game thinks Sidney Crosby is the greatest player since Wayne Gretzky -- because at least he's thinking about Crosby, which means he's thinking about hockey. And that's a start.


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Usually fall is my perfect running time, when I can't get enough fresh air and outdoor time. I usually have no trouble finding the motivation to head out for a run. But for some reason this week I just don't feel like running.
I had a great run last Saturday, heading out for a 3-5 miler but instead doing 14. The only problem was it was the start of some weird groin pain. It started just before mile 3, a tight not-quite-pain feeling in my right groin (the opposite side from when I had hip flexor tendinitis last year). It would have been the smart thing to stop and walk home but sometimes I am stubborn and this was one of those times – I had already decided I was running at least 8 miles and dammit nothing was going to stop me! – so I sat down and stretched then started running again. I found if I went slower and shortened my stride just a bit it felt better. Gradually it went away and I completed 14 miles feeling pretty good (side note: I think this was my longest run since my marathon in 2009!).
I was sore after the run, so I stretched well and used my marathon stick. I also iced my groin, even though it felt fine. On Sunday I went out for a 4 miler, just to loosen up a bit. At first all was well, then about a mile in I had the same groin tightness. Again it gradually went away, and again I felt fine after. Same thing Tuesday, although I only ran 2 miles and it started 1/3 mile in and was on-and-off most of the run. Again, though, fine after. I haven't run since.
So maybe that's part of why I don't feel like running this week. I'm afraid I might be injured and nothing terrifies a runner more than the thought of being sidelined with an injury. It's probably for the best that I do take some time off, or just do short, easy runs until I'm feeling better. I just hope it's soon. I ate two cupcakes today and could desperately use the calorie burn!


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Savannah-Chatham Metro Police are stepping up patrols and police presence in Downtown Savannah in response to increased crowds and violence.
20 year old Vaughn Cornelia and 20 year old Mamie Smith were both shot along Broughton street about 3am Friday morning. Police say there were almost 100 witnesses to that crime. They are still searching for suspects.
Larger crowds on the streets after the bars have closed are becoming more commonplace in Downtown Savannah, and more worrisome to Savannah-Chatham Metro Police.
"We have a responsibility to make sure the downtown area is safe, and it is," said Downtown Precinct Captain Mike Wilkins.
Police are doing their part to make sure its safe. Starting Friday night, there will be more officers on the beat, watching for criminals in action in Downtown.
"When they let out the patrons for these clubs go to specific areas, specifically places where they serve food because they are hanging out when they get out of the clubs, there are 3-4 different locations where we find larger than normal groups. We deploy extra officers in these areas beyond what we've already deployed to address those issues," said Captain Wilkins.
Those extra officers will be on duty Thursday through Sunday, because that's now how long the typical downtown weekend lasts.
"A Local college (SCAD) doesn't have class on Friday, and that's maybe what started the Thursday night event," explained Wilkins. "It's grown to a point where we feel we have been making some adjustments for it, but we'll make them faster."
There are 118 alcohol related businesses in the Downtown precinct alone. That's more than a third of the total number for the city, and a challenge for police. A challenge the Chief says his officers are ready to take on.
"There's nothing more important than the safety of the people that come downtown or anyplace else in the city or county people want to visit," said Savannah-Chatham Police Chief Willie Lovett. "We can't put a value on that."
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Oklahoma groups honored by American Meteorological Society for efforts related to 1999 tornado outbreak
The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Norman, Okla., the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, KFOR, KOCO and KWTV television, the Southwest Independent Repeater Association and the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, will all receive a special award from the American Meteorological Society for their actions before, during and after the deadly May 3, 1999 tornado outbreak.
The organizations are being honored "for outstanding and well-coordinated actions before, during and after the historic 3 May 1999 tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma, which prevented untold deaths and minimized the impact of the devastating storms." The award will be presented Jan. 17 at the AMS 81st Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
The National Weather Service Norman, Okla., Weather Forecast Office (WFO) was responsible for monitoring the severe weather across the Oklahoma region as it developed on May 3, 1999 and then warning the residents of the area about the tornado threat. The WFO serves 48 counties in southern, central, and western Oklahoma, and eight counties in the western portion of north Texas. The Norman WFO provides forecast and warning services, including tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood, and winter weather warnings. The Norman WFO is one of 122 similar offices the National Weather Service.
The Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, directed by Commissioner Bob A. Ricks, with more than 700 troopers protecting the citizens of Oklahoma, helped citizens reach safety during the event and managed all law enforcement operations in the aftermath.
The three television stations played a key role in informing the public about the warnings and potential dangers. KFOR, Oklahoma City's NBC affiliate, is lead by meteorologist Mike Morgan, while KOCO, the ABC affiliate, is lead by meteorologist Rick Mitchell, and KWTV, the city's CBS affiliate, is lead by meteorologist Gary England. All three stations relayed a consistent message of a life-threatening storm approaching the city, and innovative tools such as TV cameras mounted on helicopters and a ground based camera network were used by some to provide continuous updates on the position of the storm.
Select emergency managers, fire departments and law enforcement officials were kept up to date on the tornado event and recovery efforts through OK-First, a Web-based system developed by the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, directed by Dr. Kenneth Crawford. The system provided radar images to officials across the state notifying smaller communities of impending danger, routing emergency services, and implementing evacuations.
The Southwest Independent Repeater Association (SWIRA) is a group of amateur radio operators in Southwest Oklahoma and North Texas. Using ham radios, severe weather spotters relayed vital, real-time information about the May 3, 1999 tornado to the National Weather Service and other groups. Terry Mahorney is SWIRA president.
The AMS, founded in 1919, is the nation's leading professional society for scientists in the atmospheric and related sciences. The Society publishes nine well-respected scientific journals, sponsors scientific conferences, and supports public education programs across the country. Additional information on the AMS, the Annual Meeting, and other award winners is available on the Internet at http://www.ametsoc.org/ams.


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New vehicle won't have Chevrolet sibling
Speaking with reporters from Automotive News, GM boss Mark Reuss stated the GMC brand will get a standalone model not shared by volume brand Chevrolet.
When asked if we'd see a vehicle unique to GMC, Reuss replied, "Oh, yes, you will."
However, unlike the Granite concept shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, the new model probably won't be a utility.
Ed Welburn, head of GM global design, said all GMC models currently under development are trucks, raising the question where a truck could fit in GMC's newly expanded model range with the 2015 Canyon.
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She's got the stature, the look, and she's got the footwork. Meet Jazz, a thoroughbred Arabian horse. Her owners got her half a year ago for free.
"What we realized with Jazz through the Humane Society, this horse has as much, if not more potential than a horse you would pay good money for I'm not talking $5,000, I'm talking $25,000," said Melinda Peters, owner of the horse.
A college professor in Atlanta, Melinda Peters, retired to Kershaw County and brought her husband, Ben, in on her dream.
"We'll I'm a horse person now whether I want to be or not," said Ben.
It seems that he's adjusted based on how well he handled Jazz during our interview.
But Jazz wasn't always their girl. The Humane Society took her in a few years ago. She and 57 others were neglected, abused, and running wild. Belinda decided to adopt one.
"It took an hour to unload her in to a trailer," said Belinda. "She broke out into a sweat."
It's hard to believe 6 months ago you couldn't even touch Jazz. Now she lets just about anyone touch her and pet her.
But 6 months ago, Jazz was a horse recovering from trauma. She was one of 58 horses seized by the Humane Society from the Trexler family.
Investigators say the horses had been neglected and starved. James, Hazel and Terry Trexler were all charged in the case.
"For all the trauma she's endured, she has this desire to try," Ben said.
And it takes a lot of trying. Ben's doing the therapy himself with the guidance of Humane Society trainer, Bruce.
"To me, I feel these horses have been through what they've been through can give back more than the horse that you keep at home," said Bruce.
"For us, for Ben and I, after retirement, she's given us real direction," said Belinda.
So it turns out the horse they rescued has helped saved a part of them.
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This is perhaps the king of 1960s sexual metaphors in a pop song. A number of versions of this song were recorded in the 1950s, but few recordings of any song can boast of such an orgasmic buildup in the structure of orchestrations and vocals as this Righteous Brothers version. This was the soundtrack of countless makeout sessions during the decade. The Righteous Brothers hit #5 on the pop singles chart with this classic.
29. Breeders - "Cannonball" (1993)
There are few instrumental sounds in pop and rock sexier than Kim Deal's lead guitar in "Cannonball." The lyrics are vague, but the vocals themselves sound like a sexual come on. "Cannonball" was the Breeders first successful single reaching #2 on the modern rock chart and just missing the pop top 40 at #44.
28. Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (1966)
Perhaps it is a tribute to the greatness of this song that it has been criticized both for pointing out the sexual yearning of youth and being too conservative in encouraging waiting until marriage for sex. To this ears, the song is quite sexy in the falsetto yearning for a day when, "There wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do." This is the opening track on the Beach Boys' legendary Pet Sounds album and it landed at #8 on the pop singles chart.
27. Diana Ross - "Love Hangover" (1976)
Diana Ross embraced disco with this classic. There is a languid feel that was encouraged in the studio. Reportedly, Diana Ross danced around to the disco break, hummed, and sang bits of the song as she relaxed into the performance. There is a carefree, letting go, sexy feel to the recording that has helped "Love Hangover" to become such a classic. The song became Diana Ross' fourth solo #1 pop single.
26. Teddy Pendergrass - "Close the Door" (1978)
R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass sounds effortlessly romantic when he sings. There is a slight quaver that amounts to something like a sexual shiver in his voice. "Close the Door" details the joy in being able to enjoy sex with a lover after a long day's work. This song hit #1 on the R&B singles chart and peaked at #25 on the pop singles chart.
25. U2 - "Mysterious Ways" (1991)
U2 have indicated that "Mysterious Ways" was one of their more difficult songs to write with it originally consisting solely of a bass groove. Lyrically, there is a sort of mysticism combined with what sounds like nearly explicit sexuality with lines like, "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel." "Mysterious Ways" hit #9 on the pop singles chart and topped both rock and modern rock charts.
24. LL Cool J - "Doin' It" (1996)
LL Cool J turned the loverman heat on high here. LeShaun's vocals bathed in sexual ecstasy are key to the success of "Doin' It." Her repeated, "doin' it and doin' it and doin' it well" becomes hypnotic. The song became LL Cool J's third top 10 pop hit peaking at #9.
23. Bob Dylan - "Lay Lady Lay" (1969)
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22. Madonna - "Justify My Love" (1990)
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21. Shakira - "Underneath Your Clothes" (2002)
Rarely has there been more extravagant praise for a male lover than Shakira's "Underneath Your Clothes." The physicality implied is quite sexual itself, but the spiritual implications in the song raise it above the norm. This was Shakira's second top 10 pop hit single in the US peaking at #9.


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Facing a must win in their drive for the Royal Bank Cup the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League champion Yorkton Terriers came up with a 3-1 win over Carlton Place in round robin action Wednesday.
Facing elimination the Terriers out shot the Canadians 16-8 in the first period but found themselves down a goal giving up a short-handed effort to Anthony McVeigh who completed a two-on-one break out going high to Terrier netminder Kale Thomson's glove side. The goal came at 9:36 of the period.
The Terriers finally equalized things when Brett Boehm scored a power play goal at 9:54 of the second.
Tayler Thompson scored what would be the eventual game-winner for Yorkton at 13:50.
The Terriers carried the 2-1 lead into the third where Chase Norrish, Player of the Game for Yorkton, would get an insurance goal in the power play at 6:04.
Thomson would get the win the Terrier net facing 26 shots, while his teammates generated 37 at Carlton Place netminder Guillaume Therien.
Terrier head coach Trent Cassan said it was important for Thomson to have a big game.
"He knew he needed to be better," he said of his netminder, adding Thomson has responded to adversity all year. "For us to bounce back here he needs to be one of our best players."
Cassan said the win was one the team can build on.
"It was the first time we put together a consistent effort," he said, adding that there is still room to fine tune. "The first 10-minutes we were a little nervous and gave up the first goal," he said. "But, after that we started doing the things we needed to do to be successful …
"We played an honest game tonight."
Chase Norrish said the Terriers finally put together a "Terrier effort."
"It took us a little while to get going (in the tourney), but we knew coming into this one it was do, or die," he said.
Asked if giving up the first goal was worrisome for a team struggling to get traction in Vernon, Norrish said no one wants to give up the first goal, but it has happened before and it's something a good team has to overcome.
"We just stayed focused on our game. We listened to what the coach had to tell us," he said. "… We played Terrier hockey."
The message was pretty straight forward, play a complete game of 60-minutes.
In the defensive end the hard work meant limiting Carleton Place's chances.
"We tried to keep pucks away," said Norrish, adding they boxed out the Canadians as much as possible.
Cassan said another message was to stay out of the penalty box in the final period.
"We talked about not taking penalties in the third period, and we did that," he said, adding while you need to play on the edge, at this level snipers have the extra room to be dangerous.
Offensively the Terriers generated lots of shots, and Norrish said when they got up 2-1 they gained some confidence.
"You know it's not a sure thing," he said, but there was a feeling the Terriers were in control for the first time in the RBC.
Thursday afternoon the Terriers will face another must-win contest. They defeat Dauphin and make the playoff round Saturday, or they lose and are the lone team left on the outside looking in.
The Terriers defeated the Kings twice at the Western Canada Cup, but Dauphin is 3-0 at this week's RBC.
"Dauphin has played very well in this tournament," said Cassan, adding in the WCC the game with the Terriers were "back and forth" affairs.
Norrish the Kings "are an excellent hockey club," but they at least are familiar with the way Dauphin plays.
And, again the Terriers have to win, which is huge motivation, he added.
"We've just got to keep playing hockey the way we know we can," said Norrish.