Sumários

Levi-Civita connection

10 novembro 2011, 09:00 José António Maciel Natário

Levi-Civita connection: existence and uniqueness.


Affine connections

7 novembro 2011, 11:00 José António Maciel Natário

Affine connections: definition and examples. Contravariant and mixed tensors. Torsion.


First test

3 novembro 2011, 09:00 José António Maciel Natário

First test.


Riemannian manifolds

31 outubro 2011, 11:00 José António Maciel Natário

Riemannian manifolds: definition and examples. Metric induced by an immersion on a Riemannian manifold. Length of a curve, Riemannian volume element, gradient.


Volume forms

27 outubro 2011, 09:00 José António Maciel Natário

Orientability and volume forms.