Syllabus/achievement requirements

Jeffrey M. Lee: "Manifolds and Differential Geometry", Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 107, AMS, 2009.

Syllabus (keywords):

Part 1:

  • smooth manifolds
  • smooth maps
  • paracompactness and partitions of unity
  • tangent spaces and tangent maps
  • immersions and submersions
  • submanifolds
  • regular and critical points and values
  • Sard's theorem (proved only in the easiest case)
  • transversality
  • Whitney embedding theorem (weak version for compact manifolds)

Part 2:

  • tangent bundles
  • vector fields and Lie brackets
  • flows of vector fields
  • commuting flows
  • Lie groups
  • Lie algebra of a Lie group
  • adjoint representations

Part 3:

  • alternating tensors on a finite-dimensional real vector space
  • wedge products and the exterior algebra
  • differential forms
  • the exterior derivative
  • manifolds with boundary
  • orientations
  • Stokes' theorem

 

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