Spring 2015 - Differential Geometry for Physicists

DateTopicLecture notesExercises
10. February 2015Introduction. Manifolds. Coordinates. Maps.lecture01.pdfex01.pdf
17. February 2015Fiber bundles. Vector bundles. Sections.lecture02.pdfex02.pdf
3. March 2015Tangent bundle. Vector fields.lecture03.pdfex03.pdf
10. March 2015Cotangent bundle. Tensor bundles.lecture04.pdfex04.pdf
24. March 2015Differential forms. Exterior derivative.lecture05.pdfex05.pdf
31. March 2015Pushforward. Pullback. Coordinate transformations.lecture06.pdfex06.pdf
7. April 2015Integration. Line integrals. Integrals over chain complexes.lecture07.pdfex07.pdf
14. April 2015Jets. Jet manifolds. Jet bundles.lecture08.pdfex08.pdf
21. April 2015Variational bicomplex. Lagrangians.lecture09.pdfex09.pdf
28. April 2015Action principle. Euler-Lagrange equations.lecture10.pdfex10.pdf
5. May 2015Lie groups. Lie group actions.lecture11.pdfex11.pdf
12. May 2015Diffeomorphism groups. Lie derivative. Flow.lecture12.pdfex12.pdf
12. May 2015Noether theorem.lecture13.pdfex13.pdf
19. May 2015Principal fiber bundles. Associated fiber bundles.lecture14.pdfex14.pdf
26. May 2015Connections on fiber bundles. Connection forms. Covariant derivative.lecture15.pdfex15.pdf
26. May 2015Gauge theories. Gauge transformations.lecture16.pdfex16.pdf