Variedades Diferenciáveis
| Áreas Científicas |
| Classificação |
Área Científica |
| OFICIAL |
Matemática |
Ocorrência: 2025/2026 - 1S 
Ciclos de Estudo/Cursos
Docência - Responsabilidades
Língua de trabalho
Inglês
Objetivos
To treat the basic theory of differential manifolds.
Resultados de aprendizagem e competências
The student should acquire a thorough knowledge of the theory of differential manifolds and be able to use its tools in mathematical problem solving and research.
Modo de trabalho
Presencial
Pré-requisitos (conhecimentos prévios) e co-requisitos (conhecimentos simultâneos)
Elements of general topology. Calculus of functions of several variables. Basic algebra.
Programa
Topological and differentiable manifolds, differentiable maps; partitions of unity. Tangent and cotangent bundles; the differential of a smooth map. Immersions, submersions, and submanifolds; inverse images of regular values, transversality, Sard's Theorem; Whitney embedding.
Vector fields and flows; the Lie bracket of vector fields; Foliations, distributions and the Frobenius theorem; Lie groups and Lie algebras; Lie group and Lie algebra actions and representations; quotients, principal bundles, and homogenous spaces. Fibre bundles and Vector bundles.
Differential forms, exterior derivative. Integration on manifolds. Stokes' theorem. Elements of homological algebra; de Rham cohomology. The Poincaré Lemma. Homotopy and homotopy invariance of de Rham cohomology. Euler characteristic. The Mayer-Vietoris sequence.
Some additional topics may be treated, such as: Degree of a map; the index of a vector field with isolated singularities and the Poincaré-Hopf Theorem. Constructions with vector and fiber bundles; vector valued forms; classification of bundles. Symplectic, Riemannian, complex, or other geometric structures.
Bibliografia Obrigatória
Fernandes, Rui Loja; Lectures on Differential Geometry, World Scientific, 2025. ISBN: 978-981-12-5264-8
Jaques Lafontaine; An Introduction to Differential Manifolds, Springer, 2015
Bibliografia Complementar
Ib Madsen;
From calculus to cohomology. ISBN: 0-521-58956-8
Raoult Bott;
Differential forms in algebraic topology. ISBN: 0-387-90613-4
Tu, L.W.; An Introduction to Manifolds, Springer, 2008
Fulton, W.; Algebraic Topology - A First Course, Springer, 1997
Sutherland, W.A. ; Introduction to Metric and Topological Spaces, Oxford University Press, 1975
Barden, D. and Thomas, C.; An introduction to differential manifolds, Imperial College Press, 2003
Métodos de ensino e atividades de aprendizagem
Lectures, problem sessions, student presentations.
Palavras Chave
Ciências Físicas > Matemática > Geometria
Tipo de avaliação
Avaliação por exame final
Componentes de Avaliação
| Designação |
Peso (%) |
| Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico |
60,00 |
| Trabalho escrito |
40,00 |
| Total: |
100,00 |
Componentes de Ocupação
| Designação |
Tempo (Horas) |
| Estudo autónomo |
187,00 |
| Frequência das aulas |
56,00 |
| Total: |
243,00 |
Obtenção de frequência
Attendance is not compulsory.
Fórmula de cálculo da classificação final
- Presentation of solutions to execrcises in class: 20%
- Class presentation and written report on a relevant topic: 80%
Avaliação especial (TE, DA, ...)
By written and/or oral exam.
Melhoria de classificação
By final exam.