Jeff Cheeger (born December 1, 1943) is a mathematician and Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University....

of a hypersurface that divides M into two disjoint pieces. In 1971, Jeff Cheeger proved an inequality that related the first nontrivial eigenvalue of...

after the Cheeger isoperimetric constant of a compact Riemannian manifold. The Cheeger constant is named after the mathematician Jeff Cheeger. Let G be...

manifolds of non-negative sectional curvature to that of the compact case. Jeff Cheeger and Detlef Gromoll proved the theorem in 1972 by generalizing a 1969...

formulation. Most of the results can be found in the classic monograph by Jeff Cheeger and D. Ebin (see below). The formulations given are far from being very...

at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians.[P95a] In 1972, Jeff Cheeger and Detlef Gromoll established their important soul theorem. It asserts...

Singer (1971, 1973a, 1973b) as an analytic analogue of Reidemeister torsion. Jeff Cheeger (1977, 1979) and Werner Müller (1978) proved Ray and Singer's conjecture...

interval is a curve of minimal length that connects its endpoints. In 1971, Jeff Cheeger and Detlef Gromoll proved that if a geodesically complete and connected...

Bibcode:1971PNAS...68..791C. doi:10.1073/pnas.68.4.791. PMC 389044. PMID 16591916. Cheeger, J.; Simons, J. (1973). "Differential characters and geometric invariants"...

dimension. As a postdoc and later assistant professor at MIT, Naber and Jeff Cheeger introduced the notion of quantitative stratification to Lower Ricci curvature...