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
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
This note explains the following topics: Manifolds, Tangent
spaces and the tangent bundle, Riemannian manifolds, Geodesics, The
fundamental group. The theorem of Seifert-van Kampen, Vector bundles, The
Yang-Mills functional, Curvature of Riemannian manifolds, Jacobi Fields,
Conjugate points.