Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis (Q5919961)

The book is divided into eight chapters. At the end of the each chapter, some exercises for readers are given. The first chapter introduces basic geometric concepts such as differentiable manifolds, tangent spaces, vector bundles, vector fields, Lie groups, Lie algebras etc. The second chapter introduces de Rham cohomology groups and essential tools from elliptic PDE's for treating these groups. The 3-rd chapter treats the general theory of connections and curvatures. In the 4-th chapter, Jacobi fields are introduced. The Ranch Theorems for Jacobi fields are proved. The 5-th chapter treats symmetric spaces. The 6-th chapter is devoted to classical Morse Theory and Floer homology. The 7-th chapter treats some problems on quantum fields theory, spin geometry and Dirac operators. In the 8-th chapter, harmonic maps between Riemannian manifolds are considered. Some existence theorems are proved and applied to classical Riemannian geometry. The sections entitled ``Perspectives'' include some historical remarks and references.