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1 Models of the Visual Cortex in Lie Groups |
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1 | (2) |
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1.2 Perceptual completion phenomena |
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3 | (3) |
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1.2.1 Gestalt rules and association fields |
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3 | (1) |
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1.2.2 The phenomenological model of elastica |
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4 | (2) |
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1.3 Functional architecture of the visual cortex |
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6 | (2) |
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1.3.1 The retinotopic structure |
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7 | (1) |
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1.3.2 The hypercolumnar structure |
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8 | (1) |
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1.3.3 The neural circuitry |
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8 | (1) |
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1.4 The visual cortex modeled as a Lie group |
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8 | (14) |
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1.4.1 A first model in the Heisenberg group |
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8 | (2) |
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1.4.2 A sub-Riemannian model in the rototranslation group |
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10 | (5) |
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1.4.3 Hormander vector fields and sub-Riemannian structures |
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15 | (2) |
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1.4.4 Connectivity property |
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17 | (3) |
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20 | (1) |
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1.4.6 Riemannian approximation of the metric |
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21 | (1) |
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1.4.7 Geodesies and elastica |
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21 | (1) |
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1.5 Activity propagation and differential operators in Lie groups |
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22 | (6) |
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1.5.1 Integral curves, association fields, and the experiment of Bosking |
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22 | (1) |
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1.5.2 Differential calculus in a sub-Riemannian setting |
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22 | (3) |
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1.5.3 Sub-Riemannian differential operators |
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25 | (3) |
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1.6 Regular surfaces in a sub-Riemannian setting |
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28 | (7) |
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1.6.1 Maximum selectivity and lifting images to regular surfaces |
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28 | (1) |
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1.6.2 Definition of a regular surface |
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29 | (1) |
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1.6.3 Implicit function theorem |
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30 | (3) |
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1.6.4 Non-regular and non-linear vector fields |
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33 | (2) |
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1.7 Completion and minimal surfaces |
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35 | (22) |
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1.7.1 A completion process |
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35 | (1) |
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1.7.2 Minimal surfaces in the Heisenberg group |
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35 | (2) |
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1.7.3 Uniform regularity for the Riemannian approximating minimal graph |
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37 | (9) |
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1.7.4 Regularity of the viscosity minimal surface |
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46 | (1) |
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1.7.5 Foliation of minimal surfaces and completion result |
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46 | (2) |
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48 | (9) |
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2 Multilinear Calderon--Zygmund Singular Integrals |
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57 | (3) |
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2.2 Bilinear Calderon--Zygmund operators |
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60 | (5) |
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2.3 Endpoint estimates and interpolation for bilinear Calderon--Zygmund operators |
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65 | (4) |
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2.4 The bilinear T1 theorem |
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69 | (4) |
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2.5 Orthogonality properties for bilinear multiplier operators |
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73 | (6) |
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2.6 The bilinear Hilbert transform and the method of rotations |
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79 | (4) |
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2.7 Counterexample for the higher-dimensional bilinear ball multiplier |
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83 | (8) |
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88 | (3) |
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3 Singular Integrals and Weights |
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91 | (1) |
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91 | (11) |
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3.2 Three applications of the Besicovitch covering lemma to the maximal function |
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102 | (3) |
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3.3 Two applications of Rubio de Francia's algorithm: Optimal factorization and extrapolation |
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105 | (5) |
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3.3.1 The sharp factorization theorem |
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105 | (2) |
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3.3.2 The sharp extrapolation theorem |
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107 | (3) |
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3.4 Three more applications of Rubio de Francia's algorithm |
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110 | (5) |
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3.4.1 Building A1 weights from duality |
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110 | (1) |
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3.4.2 Improving inequalities with weights |
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111 | (4) |
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3.5 The sharp reverse Holder property of A1 weights |
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115 | (2) |
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3.6 Main lemma and proof of the linear growth theorem |
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117 | (1) |
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3.7 Proof of the logarithmic growth theorem |
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118 | (1) |
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3.8 Properties of Ap weights |
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119 | (3) |
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3.9 Improvements in terms of mixed A1-A∞ constants |
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122 | (2) |
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3.10 Quadratic estimates for commutators |
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124 | (6) |
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3.10.1 A preliminary result: a sharp connection between the John-Nirenberg theorem and the A2 class |
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124 | (2) |
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3.10.2 Results in the Ap context |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (1) |
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3.11 Rearrangement type estimates |
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130 | (4) |
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3.12 Proof of Theorem 3.42 |
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134 | (2) |
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3.13 The exponential decay lemma |
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136 | (9) |
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139 | (6) |
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4 De Giorgi--Nash--Moser Theory |
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145 | (6) |
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145 | (1) |
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4.1.2 Motivation: a variational problem |
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146 | (5) |
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151 | (4) |
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4.2.1 A brief introduction to Sobolev spaces |
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151 | (3) |
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4.2.2 Definition of weak solutions |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (6) |
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4.3.1 Harnack's inequality |
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155 | (1) |
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4.3.2 Weak Harnack's inequality: sup |
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155 | (4) |
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4.3.3 Weak Harnack's inequality: inf |
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159 | (2) |
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161 | (5) |
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4.4.1 De Giorgi's class of functions |
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161 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Boundedness of functions in DG(Ω, γ) |
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161 | (2) |
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4.4.3 Holder continuity of functions in DG(Ω, γ) |
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163 | (3) |
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4.5.1 Degenerate elliptic equations |
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166 | (3) |
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