Math 423: Differentiable Manifolds
Basic Information
- Instructor: Eugene Lerman
- e-mail:lerman@math.uiuc.edu
- Homepage:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~lerman
- Course page:
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~lerman/423/f02syl.html
- Office: 336 Illini Hall
- Office Hours: MW 10 - 10:50 and by appointment.
- Phone: 244-9510
- Class meets: MWF 9 am in 243 Altgeld Hall
Prerequisites
Mathematics 323 or 381, or consent of instructor.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me by e-mail.
Course outline
The course is an introduction to the language of differentiable
manifolds with a smattering of Riemannian geometry.
We will cover the topics of the differential geometry comprehensive exam:
- Definition and examples of manifolds and of maps of manifolds.
Inverse and implicit function theorem, submanifolds,
immersions and embeddings.
- Tangent vectors, covectors, tangent and cotangent bundles.
- Vector fields, flows, Lie derivative.
- Tensor and exterior algebras. Vector bundles and operations on
vector bundles.
- Tensors and differential
forms. Closed and exact forms. Poincare Lemma. de Rham
cohomology.
- Integration of forms on manifolds. Stokes' theorem.
- Riemannian metric, length of curves, geodesics.
- Connections on vector bundles, Levi-Civita connection.
- symplectic and contact structures
- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics, Legendre transform.
Texts
The official text is
Conlon, Lawrence Differentiable manifolds. Second
edition. Birkhäuser Advanced Texts: Basler Lehrbücher. Birkhäuser
Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 2001. xiv+418 pp. $59.95. ISBN 0-8176-4134-3
A recommended text is
Lectures on Differential Geometry by S.S. Chern, W.H. Chen and
K.S. Lam.
Other texts that you may or may not find useful:
A comprehensive introduction
to differential geometry, Vol I by M. Spivak
Other texts you may wish to look at:
- Foundations of differentiable manifolds and Lie
groups by F. Warner
- Tensor analysis on
manifolds by Bishop and Goldberg and
- An
introduction to differentiable manifolds and Riemannian
geometry by Boothby.
Grades
The
course grade will be based on weekly homework, one write up
of homework solutions for the class, a midterm and a final.
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