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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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Existence parallel vector fields and its effect on the topology of manifolds (Karp's Thesis)
It seems that there is no digital copy of Leon Karp's Ph.D. thesis
L. Karp, Vector fields on manifolds, Thesis, New York Univ., 1976.
on internet and his paper excerpted from his thesis is very brief …
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What specifically is the gap in Aubin's argument about positive Ricci curvature that Paul Eh...
In his paper [2], Paul Ehrlich write
In [1], Aubin stated a theorem which implied as a corollary that if a manifold
$M$ admits a Riemannian metric with nonnegative Ricci curvature and
all Ricci curva …
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What are your common strategies/remedies when your new theory/idea stuck in most cases?
Sorry if this is not a suitable post for MO.
Sometimes after reading the origin of a theory/idea in differential topology I put myself in the shoes of that mathematician and ask myself, Did you do the …
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Is the meaning of "irreducible manifold", "not reducible to other manifold"?
This is a cross post of MSE.
Q1: What does "irreducible manifold" mean (not definition)?
My understanding of "irreducible manifold" is "is not reducible (homotopic or deformation or homeomorph or be …
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Why non closed differential forms do not play important role for the topology of a manifold?
Cross-posted from MSE.
I know that De Rham cohomology reveal some properties of the topology of smooth manifolds by finding closed differential $k$-forms $\mathsf{d}\omega=0$ that are not exact $\ome …
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Is the meaning of "irreducible manifold", "not reducible to other manifold"?
Summary of comments and other sources
There are at least 4 similar concepts:
Irreducible smooth manifold: As Ryan Budney said, "Regarding high dimensions, generally irreducible manifolds do not exist …
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Existence non-trivial parallel $p$-form implies non-triviality of $p$-th cohomology group us...
Cross-post from MSE.
Suppose $(M,g)$ be a closed Riemannian manifold. Because every parallel (nontrivial) $p$-form $\omega$ is harmonic so the $p$-th Betti number should be positive i.e. $b_p\geq 1$. …
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Does $\pi_k(M)\neq 0$ implies $\operatorname{ind}(\gamma) < k$?
Cross post from MSE. and sorry if this is an obvious question.
Here is a line of proof of Theorem 1.15 from
Brendle, Simon, Ricci flow and the sphere theorem, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 111. Prov …
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Reference for non-parallel harmonic $k$-forms
I want to get some deep understanding on closed orientable Riemannian manifolds admitting $k$-forms ($k\geq 2$) $\omega$ that satisfices the following conditions:
$$\nabla \omega\neq 0,\quad \Delta\om …
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Why trace is more natural than (preferred to) determinant for smooth map $f:M\to N$?
Cross-post from MSE.
For a continuous map $f:(M,g)\to (N,h)$, between Riemannian manifolds $(M,g)$ and $(N,h)$ we can pullback $h$ by $f$. Most experts take the trace from this new tensor and work wit …
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Open neighbourhood of a point of space of Riemannian metrics
Let $M$ be a finite-dimensional compact smooth manifold and
$$\mathcal{M}et(M) = \{ g : g \text{ is a Riemannian metric on }M \}.$$
Q1-a: What metrics $g$ are very close to the given metric $g_0$? I.e …
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Consequences of Gromov's Conjecture
In Peter Petersen words, Gromov Betti number estimate is considered one of the deepest and most beautiful results in Riemannian geometry; which asserts that
Theorem (Gromov 1981). There is a constant …
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Is the 2-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet theorem applicable in higher dimensions? [closed]
This is a cross-post of this MSE post that users commented that it is appropriate for MO.
I want to know
Question: Is the 2-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet theorem applicable (any topological or geometrica …
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Correction to Milnor's h-cobordism book
This is a cross-post from MSE.
These four screenshots from milnor's book baffled me a bit (pages 24, 50, 51 and i-iii resp.):
In first one, there is no Theorem 3.1 in the book, but there i …
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About Riemann curvature tensor of local reflection
Let $\alpha: [a,b]\to M$ be an embedded curve in a Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and let
$p$ be a point in $M$, not on the curve $\alpha$. If $p$ is close enough to $\alpha$, there exists a
unique geode …
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