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By Shiing-Shen Chern, Wei-Huan Chen, K. S. Lam
This booklet is a translation of an authoritative introductory textual content in keeping with a lecture sequence introduced by means of the well known differential geometer, Professor S S Chern in Beijing college in 1980. the unique chinese language textual content, authored by way of Professor Chern and Professor Wei-Huan Chen, used to be a special contribution to the math literature, combining simplicity and economic system of method with intensity of contents. the current translation is aimed toward a large viewers, together with (but now not constrained to) complex undergraduate and graduate scholars in arithmetic, in addition to physicists attracted to the various purposes of differential geometry to physics. as well as an intensive remedy of the basics of manifold thought, external algebra, the outside calculus, connections on fiber bundles, Riemannian geometry, Lie teams and relocating frames, and intricate manifolds (with a succinct creation to the speculation of Chern classes), and an appendix at the courting among differential geometry and theoretical physics, this booklet encompasses a new bankruptcy on Finsler geometry and a brand new appendix at the heritage and up to date advancements of differential geometry, the latter ready particularly for this version through Professor Chern to carry the textual content into views.
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More precisely, if for any point p E M , there exists a neighborhood U of p and smooth tangent vector fields X I ,. . ,xh which are linearly independent at every point in U (so that at any point q E U , Lh(q) is spanned by vectors X 1( q ) ,. . ,xh(Q)), then Lh is called an h-dimensional smooth tangent subspace field, or an h-dimensional smooth distribution on M , denoted by LhlU = { X I , . . , X h } . 18) The tangent vector fields X I , . . , xh are determined by Lh up to a nondegenerate linear transformation with functional coefficients.
5) When the basis of the vector space V is changed, the components of a tensor are changed according to specific rules. Suppose { . ~ ? i } l g i is l ~another basis of V with dual basis {C*i}l