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Corso di Relatività Generale I Parte. Fondamenti di Geometria Differenziale e Relatività Generale. Summary of Riemanian Geometry and Vielbein formulation. Manifolds. Introduction to manifolds. Privileged observers and affine manifolds. Both Newtonian Physics and Special Relativity
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Corso di Relatività GeneraleI Parte Fondamenti di Geometria Differenziale e Relatività Generale
Summary of Riemanian Geometry and Vielbein formulation Manifolds
Privileged observers and affine manifolds Both Newtonian Physics and Special Relativity have privileged observers Affine Manifold
Curved Manifolds and Atlases The intuitive idea of an atlas of open charts, suitably reformulated in mathematical terms,provides the very definition of a differentiable manifold
Picture of an open chart Homeomorphism
The axiom M2 Transition functions
The axiom M3 Differentiable Manifolds
The transition function There are just two open charts and the transition function is the following one
Tangent vectors at a point p 2 M Intuitively the tangent in p at a curve that starts from p is the curve’s initial direction
Example: tangent space at p 2 S2 Let us make this intuitive notion mathematically precise
Tangent vectors and derivations of algebras Algebra of germs
Vector controvariance We have where
Introducing differential forms DEFINITION:
Cotangent space Definition
Differential 1-forms at p 2 M = dx