Foundational Material / 1: |
Manifolds and Differentiable Manifolds / 1.1: |
Tangent Spaces / 1.2: |
Submanifolds / 1.3: |
Riemannian Metrics / 1.4: |
Vector Bundles / 1.5: |
Integral Curves of Vector Fields. Lie Algebras / 1.6: |
Lie Groups / 1.7: |
Spin Structures / 1.8: |
Exercises for Chapter 1 |
De Rham Cohomology and Harmonic Differential Forms / 2: |
The Laplace Operator / 2.1: |
Representing Cohomology Classes by Harmonic Forms / 2.2: |
Generalizations / 2.3: |
Exercises for Chapter 2 |
Parallel Transport, Connections, and Covariant Derivatives / 3: |
Connections in Vector Bundles / 3.1: |
Metric Connections. The Yang-Mills Functional / 3.2: |
The Levi-Civita Connection / 3.3: |
Connections for Spin Structures and the Dirac Operator / 3.4: |
The Bochner Method / 3.5: |
The Geometry of Submanifolds. Minimal Submanifolds / 3.6: |
Exercises for Chapter 3 |
Geodesics and Jacobi Fields / 4: |
1st and 2nd Variation of Arc Length and Energy / 4.1: |
Jacobi Fields / 4.2: |
Conjugate Points and Distance Minimizing Geodesics / 4.3: |
Riemannian Manifolds of Constant Curvature / 4.4: |
The Rauch Comparison Theorems and Other Jacobi Field Estimates / 4.5: |
Geometric Applications of Jacobi Field Estimates / 4.6: |
Approximate Fundamental Solutions and Representation Formulae / 4.7: |
The Geometry of Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature / 4.8: |
Exercises for Chapter 4 |
A Short Survey on Curvature and Topology |
Symmetric Spaces and Kähler Manifolds / 5: |
Complex Projective Space / 5.1: |
Kähler Manifolds / 5.2: |
The Geometry of Symmetric Spaces / 5.3: |
Some Results about the Structure of Symmetric Spaces / 5.4: |
The Space Sl(n, <$>{\op R}<$>)/SO(n, <$>{\op R}<$>) / 5.5: |
Symmetric Spaces of Noncompact Type as Examples of Nonpositively Curved Riemannian Manifolds / 5.6: |
Exercises for Chapter 5 |
Morse Theory and Floer Homology / 6: |
Preliminaries: Aims of Morse Theory / 6.1: |
Compactness: The Palais-Smale Condition and the Existence of Saddle Points / 6.2: |
Local Analysis: Nondegeneracy of Critical Points, Morse Lemma, Stable and Unstable Manifolds / 6.3: |
Limits of Trajectories of the Gradient Flow / 6.4: |
The Morse-Smale-Floer Condition: Transversality and <$>{\op Z}<$>2-Cohomology / 6.5: |
Orientations and <$>{\op Z}<$>-homology / 6.6: |
Homotopies / 6.7: |
Graph flows / 6.8: |
Orientations / 6.9: |
The Morse Inequalities / 6.10: |
The Palais-Smale Condition and the Existence of Closed Geodesics / 6.11: |
Exercises for Chapter 6 |
Variational Problems from Quantum Field Theory / 7: |
The Ginzburg-Landau Functional / 7.1: |
The Seiberg-Witten Functional / 7.2: |
Exercises for Chapter 7 |
Harmonic Maps / 8: |
Definitions / 8.1: |
Twodimensional Harmonic Mappings and Holomorphic Quadratic Differentials / 8.2: |
The Existence of Harmonic Maps in Two Dimensions / 8.3: |
Definition and Lower Semicontinuity of the Energy Integral / 8.4: |
Weakly Harmonic Maps. Regularity Questions / 8.5: |
Higher Regularity / 8.6: |
Formulae for Harmonic Maps. The Bochner Technique / 8.7: |
Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature: Existence / 8.8: |
Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature: Regularity / 8.9: |
Harmonic Maps into Manifolds of Nonpositive Sectional Curvature: Uniqueness and Other properties / 8.10: |
Exercises for Chapter 8 |
Linear Elliptic Partial Differential Equation / Appendix A: |
Sobolev Spaces / A.1: |
Existence and Regularity Theory for Solutions of Linear Elliptic Equations / A.2: |
Fundamental Groups and Covering Spaces / Appendix B: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Foundational Material / 1: |
Manifolds and Differentiable Manifolds / 1.1: |
Tangent Spaces / 1.2: |