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A space curve; the vectors T, N, B; and the osculating plane spanned by T and N. In differential geometry, the Frenet–Serret formulas describe the kinematic properties of a particle moving along a differentiable curve in three-dimensional Euclidean space, or the geometric properties of the curve itself irrespective of any motion.
Flat and sharp are mutually inverse isomorphisms of smooth vector bundles, hence, for each p in M, there are mutually inverse vector space isomorphisms between T p M and T ∗ p M. The flat and sharp maps can be applied to vector fields and covector fields by applying them to each point. Hence, if X is a vector field and ω is a covector field,
This is a list of differential geometry topics. See also glossary of differential and metric geometry and list of Lie group topics . Differential geometry of curves and surfaces
Differential geometry finds applications throughout mathematics and the natural sciences. Most prominently the language of differential geometry was used by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity, and subsequently by physicists in the development of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics.
The metric tensor (,) induces duality mappings between vector fields and one-forms: these are the musical isomorphisms flat ♭ and sharp ♯. A section A ∈ Γ ( T M ) {\displaystyle A\in \Gamma (TM)} corresponds to the unique one-form A ♭ ∈ Ω 1 ( M ) {\displaystyle A^{\flat }\in \Omega ^{1}(M)} such that for all sections X ∈ Γ ( T M ...
where , are orthonormal vector fields on , ~, ~ their horizontal lifts to , [,] is the Lie bracket of vector fields and is the projection of the vector field to the vertical distribution. In particular the lower bound for the sectional curvature of N {\displaystyle N} is at least as big as the lower bound for the sectional curvature of M ...
The Yamabe problem refers to a conjecture in the mathematical field of differential geometry, which was resolved in the 1980s. It is a statement about the scalar curvature of Riemannian manifolds: Let (M,g) be a closed smooth Riemannian manifold.
The tetrad formalism is an approach to general relativity that generalizes the choice of basis for the tangent bundle from a coordinate basis to the less restrictive choice of a local basis, i.e. a locally defined set of four [a] linearly independent vector fields called a tetrad or vierbein. [1]