Preface
CHAPTER 1
Differential Calculus
1. Categories
2. Topological Vector Spaces
3. Derivatives and Composition of Maps
4. Integration and Taylor''s Formula
5. The Inverse Mapping Theorem
CHAPTER II
Manifolds
1. Atlases, Charts, Morphisms
2. Submanifolcls, Immersions, Submersions
3. Partitions of Unity
4. Manifolds with Boundary
CHAPTER III
Vector Bundles
1. Definition, Pull Backs
2. The Tangent Bundle
3. Exact Sequences of Bundles
4. Operations on Vector Bundles
5. Splitting of Vector Bundles
CHAPTER IV
Vector Fields and DifferenUal Equations
1. Existence Theorem for Differential Equations
2. Vector Fields, Curves, and Flows
3. Sprays
4. The Flow of a Spray and the Exponential Map
5. Existence of Tubular Neighborhoods
6. Uniqueness of Tubular Neighborhoods
CHAPTER V
Operations on Vector Fields and Differential Forms
1. Vector Fields, Differential Operators, Brackets
2. Lie Derivative
3. Exterior Derivative
4. The Poincare Lemma
5. Contractions and Lie Derivative
6. Vector Fields and 1-Forms Under Self Duality
7. The Canonical 2-Form
8. Darboux''s Theorem
CHAPTER VI
The Theorem of Frobenius
1. Statement of the Theorem
2. Differential Equations Depending on a Parameter
3. Proof of the Theorem
4. The Global Formulation
5. Lie Groups and Subgroups
CHAPTER VII
Metrics
1. Definition and Functoriality
2. The Hilbert Group
3. Reduction to the Hilbert Group
4. Hilbertian Tubular Neighborhoods
5. The Morse-Palais Lemma
6. The Riemannian Distance
7. The Canonical Spray
CHAPTER VIII
Covariant Derivatives and Geodesics
I. Basic Properties
2. Sprays and Covariant Derivatives
3. Derivative Along a Curve and Parallelism
4. The Metric Derivative
5. More Local Results on the Exponential Map
6. Riemannian Geodesic Length and Completeness
CHAPTER IX
Curvature
1. The Riemann Tensor
2. Jacobi Lifts
3. Application of Jacobi Lifts to dexpx
4. The Index Form, Variations, and the Second Variation Formula
5. Taylor Expansions
CHAPTER X
Volume Forms
1. The Riemannian Volume Form
2. Covariant Derivatives
3. The Jacobian Determinant of the Exponential Map
4. The Hodge Star on Forms
5. Hodge Decomposition of Differential Forms
CHAPTER Xl
Integration of Differential Forms
1. Sets of Measure 0
2. Change of Variables Formula
3. Orientation
4. The Measure Associated with a Differential Form
CHAPTER XII
Stokes'' Theorem
1. Stokes'' Theorem for a Rectangular Simplex
2. Stokes'' Theorem on a Manifold
3. Stokes'' Theorem with Singularities
CHAPTER XIII
Applications of Stokes'' Theorem
1. The Maximal de Rham Cohomology
2. Moser''s Theorem
3. The Divergence Theorem
4. The Adjoint of d for Higher Degree Forms
5. Cauchy''s Theorem
6. The Residue Theorem
APPENDIX
The Spectral Theorem
1. Hilbert Space
2. Functionals and Operators
3. Hermitian Operators
Bibliography
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