Dominique Hulin – författare

From the preface:Many years have passed since the first edition. However, the encouragements of various readers and friends have persuaded us to write this third edition. During these years, Riemannian Geometry has undergone many dramatic developments. Here is not the place to relate them. The reader can consult for instance the recent book [Br5]. of our “mentor” Marcel Berger. However, Riemannian Geometry is not only a fascinating field in itself. It has proved to be a precious tool in other parts of mathematics. In this respect, we can quote the major breakthroughs in four-dimensional topology which occurred in the eighties and the nineties of the last century (see for instance [L2]). These have been followed, quite recently, by a possibly successful approach to the Poincaré conjecture. In another direction, Geometric Group Theory, a very active field nowadays (cf. [Gr6]), borrows many ideas from Riemannian or metric geometry. But let us stop hogging the limelight. This is justa textbook. We hope that our point of view of working intrinsically with manifolds as early as possible, and testing every new notion on a series of recurrent examples (see the introduction to the first edition for a detailed description), can be useful both to beginners and to mathematicians from other fields, wanting to acquire some feeling for the subject.

From the preface:Many years have passed since the first edition. However, the encouragements of various readers and friends have persuaded us to write this third edition. During these years, Riemannian Geometry has undergone many dramatic developments. Here is not the place to relate them. The reader can consult for instance the recent book [Br5]. of our “mentor” Marcel Berger. However, Riemannian Geometry is not only a fascinating field in itself. It has proved to be a precious tool in other parts of mathematics. In this respect, we can quote the major breakthroughs in four-dimensional topology which occurred in the eighties and the nineties of the last century (see for instance [L2]). These have been followed, quite recently, by a possibly successful approach to the Poincaré conjecture. In another direction, Geometric Group Theory, a very active field nowadays (cf. [Gr6]), borrows many ideas from Riemannian or metric geometry. But let us stop hogging the limelight. This is justa textbook. We hope that our point of view of working intrinsically with manifolds as early as possible, and testing every new notion on a series of recurrent examples (see the introduction to the first edition for a detailed description), can be useful both to beginners and to mathematicians from other fields, wanting to acquire some feeling for the subject.

Traditional point of view: pinched manifolds 147 Almost flat pinching 148 Coarse point of view: compactness theorems of Gromov and Cheeger 149 K. CURVATURE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ORTHOGONAL GROUP Decomposition of the space of curvature tensors 150 Conformally flat manifolds 153 The second Bianchi identity 154 CHAPITRE IV : ANALYSIS ON MANIFOLDS AND THE RICCI CURVATURE A. MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDARY Definition 155 The Stokes theorem and integration by parts 156 B. BISHOP''S INEQUALITY REVISITED 159 Some commutations formulas Laplacian of the distance function 160 Another proof of Bishop''s inequality 161 The Heintze-Karcher inequality 162 C. DIFFERENTIAL FORMS AND COHOMOLOGY The de Rham complex 164 Differential operators and their formal adjoints 165 The Hodge-de Rham theorem 167 A second visit to the Bochner method 168 D. BASIC SPECTRAL GEOMETRY 170 The Laplace operator and the wave equation Statement of the basic results on the spectrum 172 E. SOME EXAMPLES OF SPECTRA 172 Introduction The spectrum of flat tori 174 175 Spectrum of (sn, can) F. THE MINIMAX PRINCIPLE 177 The basic statements VIII G. THE RICCI CURVATURE AND EIGENVALUES ESTIMATES Introduction 181 Bishop''s inequality and coarse estimates 181 Some consequences of Bishop''s theorem 182 Lower bounds for the first eigenvalue 184 CHAPTER V : RIEMANNIAN SUBMANIFOLDS A. CURVATURE OF SUBMANIFOLDS Introduction 185 Second fundamental form 185 Curvature of hypersurfaces 187 Application to explicit computations of curvature 189 B. CURVATURE AND CONVEXITY 192 The Hadamard theorem C.