Basic Riemannian Geometry

Riemannian Geometry by Shiping Liu USTC

This PDF covers the following topics related to Riemannian Geometry : Introduction, Riemannian Metric, Geodesics, Connections, Curvatures, Space forms and Jacobi fields, Comparison Theorem, Candidates for Synthetic Curvature Conditions.

Author(s): Shiping Liu, Department of Mathematics, USTC

218 Pages

Riemannian Geometry by Eckhard Meinrenken

This PDF covers the following topics related to Riemannian Geometry : Manifolds, Examples of manifolds, Submanifolds, Tangent spaces,Tangent map, Tangent bundle, Vector fields as derivations, Flows of vector fields, Geometric interpretation of the Lie bracket, Lie groups and Lie algebras, Frobenius’ theorem, Riemannian metrics, Existence of Riemannian metrics, Length of curves, Connections and parallel transport, Geodesics, The Hopf-Rinow Theorem, The curvature tensor, Connections on vector bundles.

Author(s): Eckhard Meinrenken, University of Toronto

58 Pages

Riemannian Geometry University of Chicago

This PDF covers the following topics related to Riemannian Geometry : Smooth manifolds, Some examples, Riemannian metrics, Geodesics, Curvature, Lie groups and homogeneous spaces, Characteristic classes, Hodge theory, Minimal surfaces.

Author(s): Danny Calegari, University of Chicago

54 Pages

Riemannian Geometry an introductory Course

This note covers curves and surfaces in the plane and in space, Riemannian manifolds, Connections, Geodesics, The second fundamental form.

Author(s): E P Van Den Ban and E Looijenga

42 Pages