Scheda programma d'esame
GEOMETRY
BRUNO MARTELLI
Academic year2022/23
CourseMATHEMATICS
Code768AA
Credits11
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian

ModulesAreaTypeHoursTeacher(s)
ISTITUZIONI DI GEOMETRIAMAT/03LEZIONI72
BRUNO MARTELLI unimap
Learning outcomes
Knowledge

The aim of the course is to provide the students with a solid knowledge of the most important differential geometric tools, with an eye towards their use in all areas of Mathematics, as well as in the application of Mathematics to other fields. In particular, the student who successfully completes the course will acquire a solid knowledge of: - smooth manifolds; - vector bundles, vector fields and flows; - basic Riemannian geometry; - differential forms and de Rham cohomology.

Assessment criteria of knowledge

The exam consists in a written and an oral part. Many home exercises will be assigned to the students who attend the lessons weekly, to help them following the lectures. 

Skills

To understand and manipulate smooth manifolds, vector fields and bundles, De Rham cohomology, and some Riemannian geometry.

Assessment criteria of skills

The exam consists in a written and an oral part. Many home exercises will be assigned to students attending the lessons weekly, to help them following the lectures. 

Behaviors

The student must learn independently and solve hard exercises.

Assessment criteria of behaviors

The exam consists in a written and an oral part. Many home exercises will be assigned to attending students weekly, to help them following the lectures. 

Prerequisites

The first two years of mathematics. It would be advisable to have already followed Geometria e Topologia Differenziale.

Teaching methods

Lessons will be face to face.
Home exercises will be assigned to attending students every week. 

Syllabus

The course covers the basics of differential geometry: smooth manifolds, smooth maps, partitions of unity, tangent vectors, vector bundles, tangent and cotangent bundles, tensor bundles, sections of vector bundles, vector fields and differential forms, the flow of a vector field, Lie brackets, orientation, tubular neighbourhoods, Whitney's immersion theorems, foliations, transversality, Lie groups.

The second part of the course covers differential forms and De Rham cohomology: integration and external differentiation of differential forms, orientation, Stokes theorem, Mayer-Vietoris sequence, Poincare' lemma, cohomology of euclidean spaces and spheres, Poincare' duality, Kunneth theorem.

The last part covers the basics of Riemannian geometry: connections, covariant derivative, parallel transport, Riemannian metrics, isometries, Levi-Civita connection, geodesics, exponential maps, Riemannian distance, minimizing properties of geodesics, the Riemann and Ricci tensors, sectional curvature.

Bibliography

A book project freely available from the course web page will cover all the topics mentioned during the lectures.

Non-attending students info

Study the whole program on the curse notes, looking at the website. The exam will be written and oral.

Assessment methods

Written and oral exams. Some home exercises will be assigned on a weely base.

Updated: 08/08/2022 11:23