TMA4192 Differential Topology - Spring 2020
| Schedule | Room | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures: | Tuesday | 12:15–14:00 | S23 Sentralbygg 2 |
| Thursday | 14:15–16:00 | R21 Realfagbygget | |
| Office Hours: | Wednesday | 13:00–15:00 | |
| Exam: | see here | ||
| Lecturer | |||
| Glen Wilson | |||
| Office: | 1204 Sentralbygg 2 | ||
| Email: | glen [dot] m [dot] wilson [at] ntnu [dot] no | ||
The final lectures for this course will take place on April 21 and April 23 at the usual time on Blackboard Collaborate.
Bonus online lecture on Friday, March 27 at 12:15 on blackboard collaborate. This will discuss the technical transversality results needed to make our intersection theory work.
There will be a rescheduled lecture on February 14 at 14:15–16:00 in Gamle Fysikk F4. Classes on the 18th and 20th of February will be cancelled. There will be a take home midterm exam for that week.
First lecture backup loaction: Sentralbygg 2, 7. etasje, 734. 10:15–12:00 on January 7.
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What this course is about
The aim of the course is to introduce fundamental concepts and examples in differential topology. Key concepts that will be discussed include differentiable structures and smooth manifolds, tangent bundles, embeddings, submersions and regular/critical points. Important examples of spaces are surfaces, spheres, and projective spaces. Other key concepts are homotopy, transversality, intersection numbers and cobordism. Applications presented in the course may range from Brouwer's fixed point theorem to vector fields on spheres. These methods and ideas have been influential to and are used in many other parts of mathematics, but also in physics and other areas of application. See the study handbook for more information.
Prerequisites
You should have taken Calculus 1, 2 and 3, or something similar. For example, you should have seen what it means for a function from \( f \colon \mathbb{R}^n \to \mathbb{R}^m\) to be differentiable and what it means for a subset \(U\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n\) to be open, closed, or compact. We will review the basics we need at the start of the course.
Course structure
Students will receive weekly problem sets to help them practice the material and gain experience with the most important concepts. Students are encouraged to write up their solutions to the exercises and submit them to receive feedback. This will be good practice for the final exam. I will also draft a midterm that can either be taken in class or at home.
Your grade will be solely determined by the written final exam. The final exam will be a home exam through Inspera and will be graded on a pass/fail basis. See the message below from NTNU.
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TMA4192 - Differential Topology has a changed form of assessment. The assessment form Written examination has been changed to Home exam
The form of grading is changed to pass/fail
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Lecture Plan
This is a rough outline of the course structure that will be updated throughout the semester.
| Week | Topic | Reference | Exercises | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | Introduction | Notes 1 | ||
| 2.2 | Topology of Rn | Set 1 | Notes 2 | |
| 3.1 | Subspaces, connectedness | |||
| 3.2 | Cut points, compactness | Set 2 | ||
| 4.1 | Smooth manifolds, tangent spaces | GP 1.1 | Notes 3 | |
| 4.2 | Tangent spaces | GP 1.2 | Set 3 | Lecture 6-7, Old Notes 4 |
| 5.1 | Inverse function theorem | GP 1.3 | Supplement | |
| 5.2 | Immersions | GP 1.3 | Set 4 | Notes 5 |
| 6.1 | Submersions | GP 1.4 | Lecture 9 , Old Notes 6 | |
| 6.2 | Fundamental Theorem of Algebra | GP 1.4 | Set 5 | New FTA notes |
| 7.1 | Transversality and homotopy | GP 1.5 | Notes 7 | |
| 7.2 | Transversality and homotopy | GP 1.6 | Set 6 | Notes 8 |
| 7.3 | Sard's theorem | GP 1.7 | Notes 9 | |
| 8.1 | Midterm | Midterm | ||
| 9.1 | Sard's theorem, Morse functions | GP 1.7 | Set 7 | Morse Theory |
| 9.2 | Embeddings in Rn | GP 1.8 | Set 8,Prob 4 | Notes 9 |
| 10.1 | Abstract Manifolds, Projective Space | GP 1.8 | Notes 10,Old Notes 10 | |
| 10.2 | Partitions of Unity | GP 1.8 | Set 9 | Notes 11,P.O.U. supplement |
| 11.1 | Manifolds with boundary | GP 2.1 | Notes 12, Old Notes 12 | |
| 11.2 | Brouwer Fixed-point theorem, Transversality | GP 2.2, 2.3 | Set 10 | Notes 13 |
| 12.1 | Transversality | GP 2.3 | Notes 14, Old Notes 14 | |
| 12.2 | Mod 2 intersection theory | GP 2.4 | Set 11 | Notes 15 |
| 13.1 | Winding number | GP 2.5 | Notes 16 | |
| 13.2 | Borsuk-Ulam theorem | GP 2.6 | Set 12 | |
| 14.1 | Orientations | GP 3.2 | Notes 17 | |
| 14.2 | Oriented intersection number | GP 3.3 | Set 13 | |
| 15.1 | Summary | GP 3.4 | Summary 2020 | |
| Conway's ZIP proof, Notes 18 |
Reference Group
Tallak Manum
Andreas Palm Sivertsen
Elias Klakken Angelsen
Course material
This course will follow:
- [GP] V. Guillemin and A. Pollack, Differential Topology, Prentice Hall, 1974.
A highly recommended companion to this book is:
- [T] L. W. Tu, An Introduction to Manifolds, Springer Verlag.
Other interesting and related books (not required for the course):
- [M69] J. Milnor, Topology from the differentiable viewpoint, The University Press of Virginia, 1969.
- [M63] J. Milnor, Morse Theory, Annals of Mathematic Studies No. 51, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1963.
- [D] B. Dundas, Differential Topology. Version January 2013
- [L] J.M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth manifolds, Springer-Verlag.
- [S] D. Spivak, Calculus on Manifolds, Addison-Wesley, 1965.
- [Mu91] J.R. Munkres, Analysis on Manifolds, Addison-Wesley, 1991.
- [Mu75] J.R. Munkres, Topology: a first course, Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Jeff Weeks's geometry games.