Academic Catalog

MATH545 DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY I

Course Code: 2360545
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Review of differentiable manifolds and tensor fields. Riemannian metrics, the Levi-civita connections. Geodesics and exponential map. Curvature tensor, sectional curvature. Ricci tensor, scalar curvature. Riemannian submanifolds. Gauss and Codazzi equations.