Preface to the Second Edition | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Riemannian Manifolds | p. 1 |
Connections | p. 3 |
Parallel Translation of Vector Fields | p. 7 |
Geodesics and the Exponential Map | p. 9 |
The Torsion and Curvature Tensors | p. 13 |
Riemannian Metrics | p. 16 |
The Metric Space Structure | p. 19 |
Geodesics and Completeness | p. 26 |
Calculations with Moving Frames | p. 29 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 32 |
Riemannian Curvature | p. 56 |
The Riemann Sectional Curvature | p. 58 |
Riemannian Submanifolds | p. 60 |
Spaces of Constant Sectional Curvature | p. 64 |
First and Second Variations of Arc Length | p. 73 |
Jacobi's Equation and Criteria | p. 77 |
Elementary Comparison Theorems | p. 84 |
Jacobi Fields and the Exponential Map | p. 88 |
Riemann Normal Coordinates | p. 90 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 94 |
Riemannian Volume | p. 111 |
Geodesic Spherical Coordinates | p. 112 |
The Conjugate and Cut Loci | p. 114 |
Riemannian Measure | p. 119 |
Volume Comparison Theorems | p. 127 |
The Area of Spheres | p. 136 |
Fermi Coordinates | p. 138 |
Integration of Differential Forms | p. 146 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 154 |
Appendix: Eigenvalue Comparison Theorems | p. 171 |
Riemannian Coverings | p. 188 |
Riemannian Coverings | p. 189 |
The Fundamental Group | p. 195 |
Volume Growth of Riemannian Coverings | p. 199 |
Discretization of Riemannian Manifolds | p. 207 |
The Free Homotopy Classes | p. 217 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 219 |
Surfaces | p. 229 |
Systolic Inequalities | p. 230 |
Gauss-Bonnet Theory of Surfaces | p. 235 |
The Collar Theorem | p. 244 |
The Isoperimetric Problem: Introduction | p. 247 |
Surfaces with Curvature Bounded from Above | p. 251 |
The Isoperimetric Problem on the Paraboloid of Revolution | p. 267 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 274 |
Isoperimetric Inequalities (Constant Curvature) | p. 280 |
The Brunn-Minkowski Theorem | p. 281 |
Solvability of a Neumann Problem in R[superscript n] | p. 284 |
Fermi Coordinates in Constant Sectional Curvature Spaces | p. 286 |
Spherical Symmetrization and Isoperimetric Inequalities | p. 288 |
M. Gromov's Uniqueness Proof - Euclidean and Hyperbolic Space | p. 294 |
The Isoperimetric Inequality on Spheres | p. 297 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 300 |
The Kinematic Density | p. 307 |
The Differential Geometry of Analytical Dynamics | p. 308 |
The Berger-Kazdan Inequalities | p. 319 |
On Manifolds with No Conjugate Points | p. 329 |
Santalo's Formula | p. 338 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 342 |
Isoperimetric Inequalities (Variable Curvature) | p. 350 |
Croke's Isoperimetric Inequality | p. 351 |
Buser's Isoperimetric Inequality | p. 353 |
Isoperimetric Constants | p. 361 |
Discretizations and Isoperimetry | p. 374 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 382 |
Comparison and Finiteness Theorems | p. 385 |
Preliminaries | p. 385 |
H. E. Rauch's Comparison Theorem | p. 387 |
Comparison Theorems with Initial Submanifolds | p. 390 |
Refinements of the Rauch Theorem | p. 396 |
Triangle Comparison Theorems | p. 399 |
Convexity | p. 403 |
Center of Mass | p. 407 |
Cheeger's Finiteness Theorem | p. 408 |
Notes and Exercises | p. 419 |
Hints and Sketches for Exercises | p. 427 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter I | p. 427 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter II | p. 429 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter III | p. 432 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter IV | p. 440 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter V | p. 442 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter VI | p. 443 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter VII | p. 444 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter VIII | p. 445 |
Hints and Sketches: Chapter IX | p. 446 |
Bibliography | p. 449 |
Author Index | p. 465 |
Subject Index | p. 468 |
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