Preface
Chapter 1. Riemannian Metrics
1. Riemannian Manifolds and Maps
2. Groups and Riemannian Manifolds
3. Local Representations of Metrics
4. Doubly Warped Products
5. Exercises
Chapter 2. Curvature
1. Connections
2. The Connection in Local Coordinates
3. Curvature
4. The Fundamental Curvature Equations
5. The Equations of Riemannian Geometry
6. Some Tensor Concepts
7. Further Study
8. Exercises
Chapter 3. Examples
1. Computational Simplifications
2. Warped Products
3. Hyperbolic Space
4. Metrics on Lie Groups
5. Riemannian Submersions
6. Fhrther Study
7. Exercises
Chapter 4. Hypersurfaces
1. The Gauss Map
2. Existence of Hypersurfaces
3. The Gauss-Bonnet Theorem
4. Further Study
5. Exercises
Chapter 5. Geodesics and Distance
1. Mixed Partials
2. Geodesics
3. The Metric Structure of a Riemannian Manifold
4. First Variat of Energy
5. The Exponential Map
6. Why Short Geodesics Are Segments
7. Local Geometry in Constant Curvature
8. Completeness
9. Characterization of Segments
10. Riemannian Isometries
11. Further Study
12. Exercises
Chapter 6. Sectional Curvature Comparison I
1. The Connection Along Curves
2. Second Variation of Energy
3. Nonpositive Sectional Curvature
4. Positive Curvature
5. Basic Comparison Estimates
6. More on Positive Curvature
7. Further Study
8. Exercises
Chapter 7. The Bochner Technique
1. Killing Fields
2. Hodge Theory
3. Harmonic Forms
4. Clifford Multiplication on Forms
5. The Curvature Tensor
6. Further Study
7. Exercises
Chapter 8. Symmetric Spaces and Holonomy
1. Symmetric Spaces
2. Examples of Symmetric Spaces
3. Holonomy
4. Curvature and Holonomy
5. Further Study
6. Exercises
Chapter 9. Ricci Curvature Comparison
1. Volume Comparison
2. Fundamental Groups and Ricci Curvature
3. Manifolds of Nonnegative Ricci Curvature
4. Further Study
5. Exercises
Chapter 10. Convergence
1. Gromov-Hausdorff Convergence
2. HSlder Spaces and Schauder Estimates
3. Norms and Convergence of Manifolds
4. Geometric Applications
5. Harmonic Norms and Ricci curvature
6. Further Studv
7. Exercises
Chapter 11. Sectional Curvature Comparison 2
Appendix. De Rham Cohomology
Bibliography
Index
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