陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「285G, Lecture 0: Riemannian manifolds and curvature」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Next week (starting on Wednesday, to be more precise), I will begin my class on Perelman’s proof of the Poincaré conjecture . As I only have ten weeks in which to give this proof, I will have to move rapidly through some of the more basic aspects of Riemannian geometry which will be needed throughout the course. In particular, in this preliminary lecture, I will quickly review the basic notions of infinitesimal (or microlocal) Riemannian geometry, and in particular defining t

Riemannian geometry takes place on smooth manifolds M of some dimension . Recall that a d-dimensional manifold (or d-manifold for short) M consists of the following structures:

已知结果和反例

We say that the manifold M is smooth if the charts define a consistent smooth structure, in the sense that the maps is smooth (i.e. infinitely differentiable) on for every . One can then assert that a function from M to another space with a smooth structure (e.g. or ) is smooth if is smooth on for every ; a smooth map with an inverse which is also smooth is known as a diffeomorphism . The space of all smooth functions is denoted ; this is a topological algebra over the reals.

Remark 1. The most intuitive way to view manifolds is from an extrinsic viewpoint: as subsets of some larger-dimensional space (e.g. viewing curves as subsets of the plane, surfaces as subsets of a Euclidean space such as ). While every smooth manifold can be viewed this way (thanks to the Whitney embedding theorem ), 下面会 in fact not use the extrinsic perspective at all in this course! Instead, 下面会 rely exclusively on the intrinsic perspective – by studying the various struct

证明或构造的主线

Remark 2. It is a surprising and unintuitive fact that a single topological manifold can have two distinct smooth structures which are not diffeomorphic to each other! This is most famously the case for 7-spheres , giving rise to exotic spheres . However, in the case of 3-manifolds – which is the focus of this course – all smooth structures are diffeomorphic (a result of Munkres and Whitehead ; see also Smale for higher-dimensional variants), and so this subtlety need not con

Remark 3. As is commutative, 下面会 multiply by functions in this space on the left or on the right interchangeably. In noncommutative geometry , this algebra is replaced by a noncommutative algebra, and one has to take substantially more care with the order of multiplication, but 下面会 not use noncommutative geometry here.

阅读时建议盯住的点

We will be interested in various vector bundles over a smooth manifold M. A vector bundle V is a collection of (real) vector spaces of a fixed dimension k (the fibres of the bundle) associated to each point , whose disjoint union can itself be given the structure of a smooth (d+k-dimensional) manifold, in such a way that for all sufficiently small neighbourhoods U of any given point x, the set has a trivialisation , i.e. there is a diffeomorphism between and , with each fibre

Example 1. The space can be canonically identified with the space of sections of the trivial line bundle .

值得单独记下的条目

• A topological space M (which for technical reasons we assume to be Hausdorff and second countable );
• An atlas of charts , which are homeomorphisms from open sets in M to open sets in , such that the cover M.
• The bundle is the cotangent bundle ; elements of are cotangent vectors .
• Sections of are known as k-forms .
• In one dimension, all three curvatures vanish; there are no degrees of freedom.
• In two dimensions, the Riemannian and Ricci curvatures are just multiples of the scalar curvature (by some tensor depending algebraically on the metric); there is only one degree of freedom.
• In four and higher dimensions, the Riemann tensor is not fully controlled by the Ricci curvature; there is an additional component to the Riemann tensor, namely the Weyl tensor . Similarly, the Ricci curvature is not fully controlled by the
• non-negative scalar curvature if ;

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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