Manifolds (Differentieerbare varieteiten) 2019/2020 (blok 1)

The retake was rescheduled for January 6th, 17.15-20.15, in Ruppert 0.29.

This is the web-site for the course "Differentieerbare varieteiten" given in blok 1, Fall 2019. Here you will find all the practical informations about the course, changes that take place during the year, lecture notes, etc.

Here are the grades of the exam and the final grades. Note: I had to remove the file since it seems that posting such a file (containing the student numbers) here is a violation of privacy, I removed the file. I hope to find an alternative solution soon (without affecting your chance to do a retake to pass the course or increase your mark).

A few comments:

- I have made a few comments on some of the exam sheets (most notably recommendations for the retake). It may be useful/interesting for you to have a brief look.

- if you want to discuss or just see your exam: Monday, December 2nd, at 17:15, in the Atlas room in the KBG (Koningsbergergebouw). The plan is: I will briefly discuss the solutions of the exam exercises (on the blackboard) and then you can have a look at the exams (and eventually ask questions).

- as predicated, I think the marks are below your real potential- just that you simply had not enough time to properly revise the material (and "let it sink in"). This is also clearly shown by the fact that many of you solved the more difficult exercises (on stuff related to the last part of the course), but did not do well on the more basic/simpler stuff from the earlier parts of the course. Therefore, I am repeating the recommendation to all of you: spend a couple of more days with the material somewhere before the holidays, then go over the material once more in the day before the retake, then come to the retake to improve your mark!

- for those doing the retake: you cannot get a lower mark! (i.e., if it is lower, I will keep the previous one). But please do not abuse this: i.e. please do spend a bit of time revisiting the material- do not come just without preparing a bit, just because "there is nothing to loose".

When, where, etc:

THE LECTURES:

------ Mondays: 11:00-12:45 in BBG 061 in. the weeks 37-41, and Ruppert C in the weeks 42, 43 and 44.

------ Wednesdays: 11:00-12:45 in 611AB (Math Building/HFG)

LECTURER: Marius Crainic.

TEACHING ASSISTANTS: Maarten Mol.

THE WERKCOLLEGES:

------ Mondays: 09.00 - 10.45: 611AB (Math Building/HFG).

------ Wednesdays: 09.00 - 10.45: 611AB (Math Building/HFG).

HOMEWORKS:

There will be homeworks during the course, that will count for the final mark. Probably around 4-5 homeworks. You will receive them at the end of the last class of the week (Wednesdays) and you have to hand them in one week later, at the start of the werkcollege on Wednesday. Note: please do not send your homework by email, unless you agree with the TA. In any case: please never send the homework to me (the lecturer) by email!!! The danger is that it will get lost.

Here I will soon add a link where you can check the marks for the homeworks.

Marks: there will be:

- hand in exercises- see above. The average of the marks for all the homeworks will give one mark HW (maximum 10).

- final exam, for which you will receive a mark E (maximum 10).

Note: you are allowed to bring with you, and use during the exam, three sheets of A4 papers (= six pages) containing definitions, theorems, etc from the course.

Coordinates of the exam:November 6th 2019, 9:00-12:00 in Educ Beta. TBA.

Final mark: The final mark will be obtained by combining E (exam mark) and HW (homework mark), by the formula:

max{(7 E+ 3 HW)/10, (17E+ 3H)/20}

Lecture notes: Please be aware that the lecture notes may still contain typos. So, if there is something that you do not understand, please ask it at the werkcollege; also, if you find typos, please communicate them to the teaching assistants. This will be of great help to improve the lecture notes and make them into a regular "dictaat" that can be printed for students.

In principle, I will be using the file that I made last year, but which I will correct/improve as we go along with the course. But, as last year, once I post some material, later I will no longer make any big change to what was already posted (i.e. I will make sure that the numbering of the theorems etc will not change). So, in principle, once you printed a part, you do not have to print it again.

While the various parts of the lecture notes will be made available as we go, just for your curiosity, here is the link to the lecture notes of the last year.

The chapters with the reminders on Topology and Analysis.

The chapter on manifolds (Chapter 3).

The chapter on tangent vectors and vector fields (Chapter 4).

The chapter on differential forms and Stokes (Chapter 5).

The schedule week by week (here we will add, after each lecture, a description of what was discussed in the lectures + the exercises from the lecture notes that you are supposed to do during the werkcollege):

♣ WEEK 37/Lecture 1 (September 9): Reminder on Topology and Analysis.

Werkcollege (September 9 and September 11): read the lecture notes containing the reminders on Topology and Analysis.

♦ WEEK 37/Lecture 2 (September 11): Reminder on Topology and Analysis .

Exercises for the werkcollege: see the lecture notes.

Homework: see here.

♦ WEEK 38/Lecture 3 (September 16): Definition of (smooth) manifolds, smooth maps and first examples (opens inside Euclidean spaces, spheres, embedded submanifolds of the Euclidean spaces).

Exercises for the werkcollege: lecture notes.

♦WEEK 38/Lecture 4 (September 18): Recap of the basic notions (smooth manifolds, smooth maps, immersion/submersion) then more examples (most notably the real and the complex projective spaces, the orthogonal group O(n)), embedded submanifolds and the general regular value theorem.

Exercises for the werkcollege: lecture notes.

Homework: Exercise 3.21.

♦ WEEK 39/Lecture 5 (September 23): more on submanifolds (of general manifolds) and Lie groups.