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Differential Geometry I

      Time and room:
Professor Prof. Dietmar A. Salamon
We 08-10 HG G 3 »
      Fr 10-12 HG F 3 »
       
       
Koordinator Tatjana Simcevic    
       
    Surname
 
Assistents
Pascal Rolli A- G We 11-12 HG F 26.3 »
  Christian Riedweg H-L
We 15-16 HG G 26.5 »
  Roger Züst
M-Se
We 15-16 HG G 3 »
  Christian Lieb Si -Y Fr 09-10 HG G 26.1 »
 


 

Syllabus
Differentiable manifolds, tangent bundle, embeddings, Frobenius' theorem.
Geodesics, second fundamental form, completeness, Hopf-Rinow theorem.
Levi-Civita connection, parallel transport, Christoffel symbols, frame bundle.
Isometries, Riemann curvature tensor, Bianchi identities, Teorema Egregium,
Cartan-Ambrose-Hicks theorem, constant curvature, symmetric spaces.
 
References
1. Differential Topology, V. Guillemin , A. Pollack.
2. Topology from Differentiable Viewpoint, J. Milnor.
3. Riemannian Geometry, M.P. Carmo.
4. The script of J. Robbin here.

5. You can download the script in German from 2002/03 here

6. New version of current lecture notes ( in progress ) here



The course starts: Fr 24 September 2010 .

The exercises start: We 29. September and Fr 1. October.

Testat conditions: 8 out of 12 meaningfully done exercise sheets.

Exercises: The details are here.


 

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