Jeff Cheeger (born December 1, 1943) is a mathematician and Silver Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University....
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of a hypersurface that divides M into two disjoint pieces. In 1971, Jeff Cheeger proved an inequality that related the first nontrivial eigenvalue of...
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after the Cheeger isoperimetric constant of a compact Riemannian manifold. The Cheeger constant is named after the mathematician Jeff Cheeger. Let G be...
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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...
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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...
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at the 1994 International Congress of Mathematicians.[P95a] In 1972, Jeff Cheeger and Detlef Gromoll established their important soul theorem. It asserts...
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Analytic torsion (section Cheeger–Müller theorem)
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...
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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...
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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"...
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dimension. As a postdoc and later assistant professor at MIT, Naber and Jeff Cheeger introduced the notion of quantitative stratification to Lower Ricci curvature...
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