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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Mathematics - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
1° Year
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TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Differential geometry (2015/2016)
Teaching code
4S003196
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
6
Language
English
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MAT/03 - GEOMETRY
Period
I semestre dal Oct 1, 2015 al Jan 29, 2016.
Learning outcomes
REVIEW IN GENERAL TOPOLOGY;
SURFACES EMBEDDED IN THE EUCLIDEAN 3-SPACE;
TENSOR CALCULUS;
DIFFERENTIAL MANIFOLDS;
RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLDS;
CONNECTIONS AND CURVATURE TENSOR.
Program
-REVIEW GENERAL TOPOLOGY
-SURFACES EMBEDDED IN THE EUCLIDEAN 3-SPACE:
• Differentiable Atlas
• Orientable Atlas
• Tangent plane
• Normal versor
• First Fundamental Form: lengths and area
• Geodesic curvature and normal curvature
• Normal sections and Meusnier Theorem
• Principal Curvatures, Gaussian curvature, Mean curvature: minimal surfaces
• Theorema Egregium
• Geodetics
- TENSOR CALCULUS
• Free vector space
• Tensor product of two vector spaces
• Tensor product of n vector spaces
• Tensor Algebra
• Transformation of the componenents of a tensoriale
• Mixed tensors
• Symmetric tensors
• Antysimmetric (alternating) tensors
• Exterior Algebra
• Determinant
• Area and Volume
-DIFFERENTIAL MANIFOLDS
• Definition and examples
• Classification of 1-manifolds
• Classification of simply-connected 2-manifolds
• Product and quotient spaces
• Differentiable maps
• Tangent space and tangent bundle
• Vector field on a manifold
• Tensor field
• Exterior Algebra on manifolds
• Riemannian Manifolds
• Metric Tensor
• Orientations
• Volume
• Exterior derivative
• De Rham Cohomology
• Homotopy
-AFFINE CONNECTION AND CURVATURE TENSOR
• Affine connection
• Parallel transport
• Levi-Civita connection
• Geodetics
• Riemann curvature tensor
• Bianchi identities
Examination Methods
Written Test (2 hours).
Test format: the student select one essay (answer with 2/3 pages) in a list of two AND two “short”
questions ( answer within 10 lines) in a list of three.
