Notes on Differential Geometry and Lie Groups
by Jean Gallier
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania 2010
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Contents: Introduction to Manifolds and Lie Groups; Review of Groups and Group Actions; Manifolds; Construction of Manifolds From Gluing Data; Lie Groups, Lie Algebra, Exponential Map; The Derivative of exp and Dynkin's Formula; Bundles, Riemannian Metrics, Homogeneous Spaces; Differential Forms; Integration on Manifolds; Distributions and the Frobenius Theorem; Connections and Curvature in Vector Bundles; Geodesics on Riemannian Manifolds; Curvature in Riemannian Manifolds; etc.
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