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In particular, ulA C is not necessarily a 1-dimensional submanifold of R2; see 3. Prove that, for every t E a, b , there exists a subinterval a', b' with a:5 d g x. Hint: This is similar to the calculation in the proof of 3. Show that the tangent space to SO 3 in R at the identity can be identified with o 3 as defined in 3. Let 1" denote the n x n identity matrix. Prove that SL2 C i. Of course, all general results about differential manifolds see Chapter 5 apply in particular to this special case.

Conversely, it turns out that any finite-dimensional manifold which can be covered by a countable number of charts can be expressed as a submanifold of R" for sufficiently large n Whitney's embedding theorem , and therefore there is only a loss of elegance, not of generality, in studying submanifolds of R" instead of abstract manifolds.

For a lively account of Lie groups and Lie algebras, with a lot of applications, see Sattinger and Weaver []; for a more advanced treatment, see Helgason []. Darboux and used extensively by the Cartan - is an extremely powerful technique in differential geometry, which we shall not discuss in full generality. Instead we shall focus mainly on surfaces in 3-space, with the intention of building intuition for the later work on connections in vector bundles.

A moving orthonormal frame on this parametrization or, more loosely, a moving orthonormal frame on M simply means a map -: W-,SO n cR"' 4. In terms of a fixed orthonormal basis for R", the matrix E11 u In brief, a moving orthonormal frame should be conceptualized as a smooth assignment of an orthonormal coordinate system for the tangent space at every point of M, as in Figure 4.

Applying d to 4. Assume that the second derivative of r is non-vanishing on a,b. Let us review the notion of tangent plane to a surface, in the multivariable calculus sense. Figure 4. Those who prefer to think in terms of differentials 4 Note that the same tangent plane is obtained for every parametrization. Let us lighten the notation for the connection forms w by writing instead 4.

Observe that, in the case of the sphere, the s This becomes more likele conventional form of Gauss's equation when the right side is identified with -K 81 A 0'. Exterior differentiation of 4. Equation 4. In equation 4. R2, where g and h are smooth functions, and g is strictly positive. Find an adapted moving orthonormal frame as in 4. Curvature of a Surface Let us proceed toward the definition of curvature.

Since the domain W of the parametrization is 2-dimensional, the 2-forms on W at any point u,v of W comprise a space with the same dimension as A2R2, which is 1. The relevance of these definitions to intuitive ideas about "curvature" will be explained in the next section, when we express K and H in terms of the principal curvatures. It appears from the construction we have given that the definitions of K and H depend on a specific choice of adapted moving orthonormal frame; the following calculations will show that this is not so, although the sign of H depends on the choice of normal direction on the surface.

However, a proof "in bad taste" is also given here. Let us continue to take cross products of vector-valued 1-forms. When a surface is "highly curved," the normal direction 43 will change very quickly as a function of the parametrization u,v , which will tend to make the left side of 4. Now 4. These equations also show that reversing the normal direction 43 changes the sign of 01 A 02, and hence xx of H, but not of K. Thus we may restate 4. We shall now derive expressions for the Gaussian and mean curvatures in terms of the principal curvatures.

It is immediate from 4. Similarly, 4. Since the trace of a matrix is the sum of the eigenvalues, this shows that 4. We calculate from 4. From 4. Note that in this case all Chapter 4 Surface Theory Using Moving Frames 94 these quantities happen to take constant values; in a more general example they will depend on u and v.

Exercises 4. Example 4. The Fundamental Forms: Exercises 4. The matrix appearing in 4. Knowledge of the First Fundamental Form would enable us in principle to calculate "minimal geodesics," that is, paths of shortest length between two points on the surface; see Klingenberg [].

It is shown by 4. Gauss may be considered as the founders of the differential geometry of surfaces. The equations bearing his name were discovered by D. Codazzi A comprehensive treatise on surface theory was written by Gaston Darboux Further historical information may be found in Struik [], which is an excellent reference for the classical theory of surfaces; see also Spivak [ ]. The treatment given here is based on Flanders [ ]. However, it is more efficient in the long run to have an "intrinsic" theory and notation for the objects we work with, and to forget about the Euclidean space they may be embedded in.

This is the theory of differential manifolds and vector bundles. Two atlases are called equivalent if their union is an atlas. As the name implies, this is indeed an equivalence relation on atlases transitivity comes from application of the chain rule from calculus. An equivalence class of atlases on M is called a smooth differentiable structure on M. A set M with a smooth differentiable structure is called a smooth differential manifold.

We say that M has dimension n if the dimension of the range of all the chart maps in some hence any equivalent atlas is n. The definition above allows M to have separate components with different dimensions, but for simplicity we shall assume henceforward that all our manifolds have a unique dimension.

Similarly yr is one-to-one. This is indeed smooth with a smooth inverse, so U, p and V, yr constitute an atlas. Evidently M can be expressed as the union of domains of such charts.

Now the Chapter 3 result on switching between different parametrizations shows that, if Ti: W. In order to know what the homeomorphisms are, we have to define the class of open sets, since in technical language the homeomorphisms are precisely the mappings which preserve the class of open sets.

Although topology is outside the scope of this book, we include here some pieces of vocabulary which will be needed to state later results. Most important, we shall need to know what an open set in a differential manifold M means. Moreover this class of open sets is closed under finite intersections and arbitrary unions, and thus indeed forms a "topology" on M, making M into a "topological space. For example, in the case 5. Fix a nonzero vector v E R3.

Submanifolds 5. The integer k is called the codimension of the submanifold Q in M. It could be tedious to use the definition as it stands to check that a subset of M is a submanifold, because one may have to perform calculations in every single chart of some atlas.

In the next section, we shall give quicker ways to identify a submanifold. First we develop a useful technical result. If f is a C' map, then so is F and hence so is F 40, since 40 is a smooth parametrization. Note that a map which sends an open interval of R into the curve in R2 shown in Figure 5. To see why it is not an embedding, first convince yourself that the image of the map is not a submanifold of R2, by looking at what happens at the point in the center under a submersion; then apply 5.

Figure 5. By a result presented in one of the Exercises of Chapter 3, there exists an open set W c cp U which contains tp p such that tat. Since f is an embedding, and since. This proves that Q is a submanifold of M. It would appear that to verify that a mapping is an embedding is not easy.

A useful fact from topology, whose proof though not difficult is outside the scope of this book, is: 5. Another useful topological result is the following. Proof: The condition that, for every open set U c Q. Since the inclusion map is already one-to-one, it only remains to prove that it is an immersion. R" is an immersion; this is true by 5. The next result is included merely to show that the relation "is a submanifold of' is reasonably well behaved.

Note: The dimensions of M, N, and P could be different. Given i , we may prove ii as follows: By 5. Selected full-text papers will be published online free of charge. The Conference offers the opportunity to become a conference sponsor or exhibitor.

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