Introduction / Chapter 0: |
Brief Definitions and Motivation / A: |
Why Write a Book on Einstein Manifolds? / B: |
Existence / C: |
Examples / D: |
Algebraic Examples / 1: |
Examples from Analysis / 2: |
Sporadic Examples / 3: |
Uniqueness and Moduli / E: |
A Brief Survey of Chapter Contents / F: |
Leitfaden / G: |
Getting the Feel of Ricci Curvature / H: |
The Main Problems Today / I: |
Basic Material / Chapter 1: |
Linear Connections |
Riemannian and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds |
Riemannian Manifolds as Metric Spaces |
Riemannian Immersions, Isometries and Killing Vector Fields |
Einstein Manifolds |
Irreducible Decompositions of Algebraic Curvature Tensors |
Applications to Riemannian Geometry |
Laplacians and Weitzenbock Formulas |
Conformal Changes of Riemannian Metrics / J: |
First Variations of Curvature Tensor Fields / K: |
Basic Material (Continued): Kahler Manifolds / Chapter 2: |
Almost Complex and Complex Manifolds / 0: |
Hermitian and Kahler Metrics |
Ricci Tensor and Ricci Form |
Holomorphic Sectional Curvature |
Chern Classes |
The Ricci Form as the Curvature Form of a Line Bundle |
Hodge Theory |
Holomorphic Vector Fields and Infinitesimal Isometries |
The Calabi-Futaki Theorem |
Relativity / Chapter 3: |
Physical Interpretations |
The Einstein Field Equation |
Tidal Stresses |
Normal Forms for Curvature |
The Schwarzschild Metric |
Planetary Orbits |
Perihelion Precession |
Geodesics in the Schwarzschild Universe |
Bending of Light |
The Kruskal Extension |
How Completeness May Fail / L: |
Singularity Theorems / M: |
Riemannian Functionals / Chapter 4: |
Basic Properties of Riemannian Functionals |
The Total Scalar Curvature: First Order Properties |
Existence of Metrics with Constant Scalar Curvature |
The Image of the Scalar Curvature Map |
The Manifold of Metrics with Constant Scalar Curvature |
Back to the Total Scalar Curvature: Second Order Properties |
Quadratic Functionals |
Ricci Curvature as a Partial Differential Equation / Chapter 5: |
Pointwise (Infinitesimal) Solvability |
From Pointwise to Local Solvability: Obstructions |
Local Solvability of Ric(g) = r for Nonsingular r |
Local Construction of Einstein Metrics |
Regularity of Metrics with Smooth Ricci Tensors |
Analyticity of Einstein Metrics and Applications |
Einstein Metrics on Three-Manifolds |
A Uniqueness Theorem for Ricci Curvature |
Global Non-Existence |
Einstein Manifolds and Topology / Chapter 6: |
Existence of Einstein Metrics in Dimension 2 |
The 3-Dimensional Case |
The 4-Dimensional Case |
Ricci Curvature and the Fundamental Group |
Scalar Curvature and the Spinorial Obstruction |
A Proof of the Cheeger-Gromoll Theorem on Complete Manifolds with Non-Negative Ricci Curvature |
Homogeneous Riemannian Manifolds / Chapter 7: |
Curvature |
Some Examples of Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds |
General Results on Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds |
Symmetric Spaces |
Standard Homogeneous Riemannian Manifolds |
Tables |
Remarks on Homogeneous Lorentz Manifolds |
Compact Homogeneous Kahler Manifolds / Chapter 8: |
The Orbits of a Compact Lie Group for the Adjoint Representation |
The Canonical Complex Structure |
The G-Invariant Ricci Form |
The Symplectic Structure of Kirillov-Kostant-Souriau |
The Invariant Kahler Metrics on the Orbits |
The Space of Orbits |
Riemannian Submersions / Chapter 9: |
The Invariants A and T |
O'Neill's Formulas for Curvature |
Completeness and Connections |
Riemannian Submersions with Totally Geodesic Fibres |
The Canonical Variation |
Applications to Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds |
Further Examples of Homogeneous Einstein Manifolds |
Warped Products |
Examples of Non-Homogeneous Compact Einstein Manifolds with Positive Scalar Curvature |
Holonomy Groups / Chapter 10: |
Definitions |
Covariant Derivative Vanishing Versus Holonomy Invariance. Examples |
Riemannian Products Versus Holonomy |
Structure I |
Holonomy and Curvature |
Symmetric Spaces; Their Holonomy |
Structure II |
The Non-Simply Connected Case |
Lorentzian Manifolds |
Kahler-Einstein Metrics and the Calabi Conjecture / Chapter 11: |
Kahler-Einstein Metrics |
The Resolution of the Calabi Conjecture and its Consequences |
A Brief Outline of the Proofs of the Aubin-Calabi-Yau Theorems |
Compact Complex Manifolds with Positive First Chern Class |
Extremal Metrics |
The Moduli Space of Einstein Structures / Chapter 12: |
Typical Examples: Surfaces and Flat Manifolds |
Basic Tools |
Infinitesimal Einstein Deformations |
Formal Integrability |
Structure of the Premoduli Spaces |
The Set of Einstein Constants |
Rigidity of Einstein Structures |
Dimension of the Moduli Space |
Deformations of Kahler-Einstein Metrics |
The Moduli Space of the Underlying Manifold of K3 Surfaces |
Self-Duality / Chapter 13: |
Half-Conformally Flat Manifolds |
The Penrose Construction |
The Reverse Penrose Construction |
Application to the Construction of Half-Conformally Flat Einstein Manifolds |
Quaternion-Kahler Manifolds / Chapter 14: |
Hyperkahlerian Manifolds |
Examples of Hyperkahlerian Manifolds |
Symmetric Quaternion-Kahler Manifolds |
Quaternionic Manifolds |
The Twistor Space of a Quaternionic Manifold |
Applications of the Twistor Space Theory |
Examples of Non-Symmetric Quaternion-Kahler Manifolds |
A Report on the Non-Compact Case / Chapter 15: |
A Construction of Nonhomogeneous Einstein Metrics |
Bundle Constructions |
Bounded Domains of Holomorphy |
Generalizations of the Einstein Condition / Chapter 16: |
Natural Linear Conditions on Dr |
Codazzi Tensors |
The Case Dr [set membership] C[superscript [infinity]] (Q [plus sign in circle] S): Riemannian Manifolds with Harmonic Weyl Tensor |
Condition Dr [set membership] C[superscript [infinity]] (S): Riemannian Manifolds with Harmonic Curvature |
The Case Dr [set membership] C[superscript [infinity]] (Q) |
Condition Dr [set membership] C[superscript [infinity]] (A): Riemannian Manifolds such that (D[subscript x]r)(X, X) = 0 for all Tangent Vectors X |
Oriented Riemannian 4-Manifolds with [delta]W[superscript +] = 0 |
Sobolev Spaces and Elliptic Operators / Appendix: |
Holder Spaces |
Sobolev Spaces |
Embedding Theorems |
Differential Operators |
Adjoint |
Principal Symbol |
Elliptic Operators |
Schauder and L[superscript p] Estimates for Linear Elliptic Operators |
Existence for Linear Elliptic Equations |
Regularity of Solutions for Elliptic Equations |
Existence for Nonlinear Elliptic Equations |
Addendum |
Infinitely Many Einstein Constants on S[superscript 2] x S[superscript 2m+1] |
Explicit Metrics with Holonomy G[subscript 2] and Spin(7) |
Inhomogeneous Kahler-Einstein Metrics with Positive Scalar Curvature |
Uniqueness of Kahler-Einstein Metrics with Positive Scalar Curvature |
Hyperkahlerian Quotients |
Bibliography |
Notation Index |
Subject Index |
Errata |
Introduction / Chapter 0: |
Brief Definitions and Motivation / A: |
Why Write a Book on Einstein Manifolds? / B: |
Existence / C: |
Examples / D: |
Algebraic Examples / 1: |