Sumários

Principal bundles

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The notion of fibre bundle with group structure G. Morphism of fibre bundles with group structure G.  

Principal G-bundles. The associated G-bundle with fibre F. The frame bundle. 
Connections on a principal bundle. Example of a connection on a frame bundle. 

Characteristic classes (cont.)

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The Chern-Weil homomorphism. Pontryagin classes. 

Complex vector bundles. Chern classes. Complexification of a real vector bundle. 
Relation between Pontrjagin end Chern classes. 

Characteristic classes.

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Differential forms in M with values in the total space E of a vector bundle over M. De Rham cohomology of M with coefficients in the total space E of a vector bundle over M. 

Correspondence between homogeneous polynomials of degree  k in a vector space V and k-multilinear symmetric maps. 

Curvature and holonomy

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Curvature tensor and curvature 2-form. Structure equations. Bianchi's identity. Holonomy of a connection. Holonomy representation of a flat connection. 

Examples

Connections

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The notion of connection in a vector bundle. Definition of Christoffel symbols  and 1-forms of the connection. The covariant derivative of a section and parallel transport along a smooth path.  

Applications to the tangent bundle: geodesic, exponential map, torsion. Levi-Civita connection in Riemannian manifolds.