Preface
Acknowledgments
4 Additional Topics in Riemannian Geometry
4.1 Curves and Surfaces in Rn Given by ODEs
4.2 Volume of Geodesic Balls
4.3 Holomorphic Geometry
4.4 Kahler Geometry
5 de Rham Cohomology
5.1 Basic Properties of de Rham Cohomology
5.2 Clifford Algebras
5.3 The Hodge Decomposition Theorem
5.4 Characteristic Classes
6 Lie Groups
6.1 Basic Concepts
6.2 Lie Algebras
6.3 The Exponential Function of a Matrix Group
6.4 The Classical Groups
6.5 Representations of a Compact Lie Group
6.6 Bi-invariant pseudo-Riemannian Metrics
6.7 The Killing Form
6.8 The Classical Groups in Low Dimensions
6.9 The Cohomology of Compact Lie Groups
6.10 The Cohomology of the Unitary Group
7 Homogeneous Spaces and Symmetric Spaces
7.1 Smooth Structures on Coset Spaces
7.2 The Isometry Group
7.3 The Lie Derivative and Killing Vector Fields
7.4 Homogeneous Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds
7.5 Local Symmetric Spaces
7.6 The Global Geometry of Symmetric Spaces
8 Other Cohomology Theories
8.1 Homological Algebra
8.2 Simplicial Cohomology
8.3 Singular Cohomology
8.4 Sheaf Cohomology
Bibliography
Authors' Biographies
Index
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