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    This course provides an overview of Riemannian geometry. [1] It will examine how creatures that live on a curved submanifold can measure distances and areas without knowledge of the surrounding space. [2] Key topics include abstract manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, curvatures, and how curvatures characterize manifolds. [3] Einstein later used these geometric concepts to develop his general theory of relativity describing how space curves under gravity.

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    This course provides an overview of Riemannian geometry. [1] It will examine how creatures that live on a curved submanifold can measure distances and areas without knowledge of the surrounding space. [2] Key topics include abstract manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, curvatures, and how curvatures characterize manifolds. [3] Einstein later used these geometric concepts to develop his general theory of relativity describing how space curves under gravity.

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    This course provides an overview of Riemannian geometry. [1] It will examine how creatures that live on a curved submanifold can measure distances and areas without knowledge of the surrounding space. [2] Key topics include abstract manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, curvatures, and how curvatures characterize manifolds. [3] Einstein later used these geometric concepts to develop his general theory of relativity describing how space curves under gravity.

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    This course provides an overview of Riemannian geometry. [1] It will examine how creatures that live on a curved submanifold can measure distances and areas without knowledge of the surrounding space. [2] Key topics include abstract manifolds, Riemannian metrics, connections, curvatures, and how curvatures characterize manifolds. [3] Einstein later used these geometric concepts to develop his general theory of relativity describing how space curves under gravity.

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    Riemannian Geometry: Overview

    by Min Ru, University of Houston

    Overview: What is the course about?

    Consider a submanifold of Euclidean space, e.g. a curve or a surface in Rn . On the submanifold lives creatures that are unaware of the surrounding space. They can measure the distance on the submanifold but not distances in space. How much of a geometry of the submanifold can they nd out? In the early 1800s Gauss asked how much of the geometry of a surface is independent of how it bends in space, i.e. how much of the geometry that remains the same if we perform an isometry that doesnt change the distance between points. Riemannian geometry is designed to describe the universe of creatures who live on a curved surface and who unaware of the surrounding space outside and can only measure distances and areas on the surface. This is called the intrinsic geometry. This lead to the modern notion of a manifold independent of a surrounding space. This course is about manifolds with a notion of a distance, how this can be used to dene curvatures and how the curvatures can characterize a manifold. Einstein realized how this theory could be used to describe how space curves under the inuence of gravity which lead to the general theory of relativity. The core topics are: Review of curves and surfaces in R3 . Abstract 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds. Theory of submanifolds of Rn ( Euclidean space). Abstract manifolds, tangent space, vector bundles. Riemannian metric on a manifold. The Levi-Civita connection. Connections on vector bundles. 1

    Geodesics and the exponential map. The curvature tensor. Curvature and local geometry. Jacobi elds. Cartans formulism(Moving frames and the structure equations). Harmonic forms and Hodge Theory.

    texbook: I will use my own notes. Here are some useful on-line sites for lecture notes: http://www.matematik.lu.se/matematiklu/personal/sigma/Riemann.pdf, and http://www.math.ucsd.edu/ lindblad/250b/250b.html.

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