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The study of differentiable manifolds and differentiable maps. One fundamental problem is that of classifying manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Differential topology is what Poincaré understood as topology or “analysis situs”.
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Nice things that can be proved easily with characteristic classes
A bit of context for this question: as a project for my master's degree my supervisor asked me to understand the construction of Milnor's exotic spheres. After learning the heavy material (I knew very …
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The holonomy map associated to a mapping torus
So I have a rather embarrassing problem, which is not really a "problem", so much as a mental block I seem to be unable to overcome. I am trying to understand the "holonomy map" of a mapping torus. To …
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Symplectic vector fields everywhere transverse to a co-dimension one hypersurface
Usually when speaking about vector fields transverse to a hypersurface in a symplectic manifold, we talk about Liouville vector fields, i.e. vector fields $X$ with the property that $\mathcal{L}_X\ome …