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Spring 2024

Chi Li

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Course Description:

This is a continuation of the course 532: Introduction to Differential Geometry. Depending on time and progress, topics may include:

1. Jacobi Fields and conjugate points

2. Isometric Immersions

3. Hopf-Rinow, Hadamard Theorems

4. Variations of energy, Bonnet-Myers theorem

5. Rauch Comparison Theorem

6. Harmonic forms, Hodge Theorem

7. Holonomy groups

References:

do Carmo: Riemannian Geometry

Jost: Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis

Besse: Einstein manifolds

Textbook:

do Carmo, Riemannian Geometry

Prerequisites:

point set topology, multivariable calculus, 532: introduction to differential geometry