Course teacher(s)
Mélanie BERTELSON (Coordinator)ECTS credits
5
Language(s) of instruction
english
Course content
Covering spaces and properly discontinuous group actions.
Distributions, Fröbenius' theorem and contact structures.
Existence of partitions of unity.
Differential forms and de Rham cohomology.
Integration and Stokes' theorem.
Classification of 2-manifolds via Morse theory (if time permits).
Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)
To introduce more advanced topics in differential geometry, such as foliations, differential forms, de Rham cohomoloy and prove the general version of Stokes' theorem.
Prerequisites and Corequisites
Required and Corequired knowledge and skills
To be able to follow this course, It is necessary to have passed a first course on differential geometry, such as MathF310, covering at least the notion of :
- intrinsic manifold
- smooth map between smooth manifolds
- tangent vector and tangent space at a point in a manifold.
- vector field and its flow.
- differential of a smooth map.
Cours ayant celui-ci comme co-requis
Teaching methods and learning activities
Theoretical courses (24 hrs) taught in English and homeworks.
Contribution to the teaching profile
This course is about manifolds without additional structures and follows MathF310. It is co-requis of the following courses : Géométrie Riemannienne, Géométrie Symplectique, Riemann Surfaces, Global Analysis, Groupes et algèbres de Lie.
References, bibliography, and recommended reading
- Lee, Jeffrey. Introduction to smooth manifolds. Springer, Graduate texts in mathematics, 2003.
- Bott, Raoul & Tu, Loring. Differential forms in algebraic topology. Springer, Graduate texts in mathematics, 1982.
- Hirsch, Morris W. Differential topology. Corrected reprint of the 1976 original. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 33. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1994.
- Lang, Serge. Introduction to differentiable manifolds. Second edition. Universitext. Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002.
- Milnor, John. Morse theory. Based on lecture notes by M. Spivak and R.Wells. Annals ofMathematics Studies, No. 51 Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1963.
- Spivak, Michael, A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry. Vol. V. Second edition. Publish or Perish, Inc., Wilmington, Del., 1979.
- Warner, Frank W.Foundations of differentiable manifolds and Lie groups. Corrected reprint of the 1971 edition. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 94. Springer-Verlag, New York-Berlin, 1983.
- Donaldson, Simon. Riemann surfaces, Oxford Gradaute Texts in Mathematics, 22. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011.
Course notes
- Syllabus
- Université virtuelle
Other information
Contacts
Mélanie Bertelson (2.O7.111) - Melanie.Bertelson@ulb.be - 02 650 58 28.
Campus
Plaine
Evaluation
Method(s) of evaluation
- Personal work
- written examination
Personal work
written examination
- Open question with short answer
- Open question with developed answer
Written exam and homeworks which contribute for 1/4th of the final grade.
Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)
Final note based on the note for the written exam Ne and the note for the homeworks Nh according to the rule : 3/4 Ne + 1/4 Nh.
Language(s) of evaluation
- english
- (if applicable french )