List of differential geometry topics
This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics.
Differential geometry of curves and surfaces
Differential geometry of curves
- List of curves topics
- Frenet–Serret formulas
- Curves in differential geometry
- Line element
- Curvature
- Radius of curvature
- Osculating circle
- Curve
- Fenchel's theorem
Differential geometry of surfaces
- Theorema egregium
- Gauss–Bonnet theorem
- First fundamental form
- Second fundamental form
- Gauss–Codazzi–Mainardi equations
- Dupin indicatrix
- Asymptotic curve
- Curvature
- Types of surfaces
- Minimal surface
- Ruled surface
- Conical surface
- Developable surface
- Nadirashvili surface
Foundations
Calculus on manifolds
See also multivariable calculus, list of multivariable calculus topics
Differential topology
- Diffeomorphism
- Large diffeomorphism
- Orientability
- characteristic class
- differentiable map
- Critical value
- Lie derivative
- Hairy ball theorem
- Poincaré–Hopf theorem
- Stokes' theorem
- De Rham cohomology
- Sphere eversion
- Frobenius theorem (differential topology)
- Distribution (differential geometry)
- integral curve
- foliation
- integrability conditions for differential systems
Fiber bundles
Fundamental structures
- Sheaf (mathematics)
- Pseudogroup
- G-structure
- synthetic differential geometry
Riemannian geometry
Fundamental notions
Non-Euclidean geometry
Geodesic
- Prime geodesic
- Geodesic flow
- Exponential map (Lie theory)
- Exponential map (Riemannian geometry)
- Injectivity radius
- Geodesic deviation equation
Symmetric spaces (and related topics)
- Riemannian symmetric space
- Margulis lemma
- Space form
- Constant curvature
- taut submanifold
- Uniformization theorem
- Myers theorem
- Gromov's compactness theorem
Riemannian submanifolds
- Gauss–Codazzi equations
- Darboux frame
- Hypersurface
- Induced metric
- Nash embedding theorem
- minimal surface
- Hsiang–Lawson's conjecture
Curvature of Riemannian manifolds
- Theorema Egregium
- Gauss–Bonnet theorem
- Chern–Gauss–Bonnet theorem
- Chern–Weil homomorphism
- Gauss map
- Second fundamental form
- Curvature form
- Riemann curvature tensor
- Geodesic curvature
- Scalar curvature
- Sectional curvature
- Ricci curvature, Ricci flat
- Ricci decomposition
- Schouten tensor
- Weyl curvature
- Ricci flow
- Einstein manifold
- Holonomy
Theorems in Riemannian geometry
- Gauss–Bonnet theorem
- Hopf–Rinow theorem
- Cartan–Hadamard theorem
- Myers theorem
- Rauch comparison theorem
- Morse index theorem
- Synge theorem
- Weinstein theorem
- Toponogov theorem
- Sphere theorem
- Hodge theory
- Uniformization theorem
- Yamabe problem
Laplace–Beltrami operator
- Hodge star operator
- Weitzenböck identity
- Laplacian operators in differential geometry
Formulas and other tools
- List of coordinate charts
- List of formulas in Riemannian geometry
- Christoffel symbols
Lie groups
Connections
- covariant derivative
- Levi-Civita connection
- parallel transport
- Development (differential geometry)
- connection form
- Cartan connection
- affine connection
- conformal connection
- projective connection
- method of moving frames
- Cartan's equivalence method
- Vierbein, tetrad
- Cartan connection applications
- Einstein–Cartan theory
- connection (vector bundle)
- connection (principal bundle)
- Ehresmann connection
- curvature
- torsion (differential geometry)
Complex manifolds
- Riemann surface
- Complex projective space
- Kähler manifold
- Dolbeault operator
- CR manifold
- Stein manifold
- Almost complex structure
- Hermitian manifold
- Newlander–Nirenberg theorem
- Generalized complex manifold
- Calabi–Yau manifold
- Hyperkähler manifold
- K3 surface
- hypercomplex manifold
- Quaternion-Kähler manifold
Conformal geometry
- Möbius transformation
- Conformal map
- conformal connection
- tractor bundle
- Weyl curvature
- Weyl–Schouten theorem
- ambient construction
- Willmore energy
- Willmore flow
Systolic geometry
- Loewner's torus inequality
- Pu's inequality
- Gromov's inequality for complex projective space
- Wirtinger inequality (2-forms)
- Gromov's systolic inequality for essential manifolds
- Essential manifold
- Filling radius
- Filling area conjecture
- Bolza surface
- First Hurwitz triplet
- Hermite constant
- Systoles of surfaces
- Systolic freedom
- Systolic category
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