Category
page 1Riemannian manifolds
Riemannian manifold
real smooth manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric
Riemann curvature tensor
tensor field in general relativity and geometry
Ricci curvature
2-tensor obtained as a contraction of the Riemann curvature 4-tensor on a Riemannian manifold (or, more generally, a smooth manifold equipped with affine connection)
pseudo-Riemannian manifold
smooth manifold equipped with nowhere degenerate (but not necessarily positive-definite) metric tensor
Ricci flow
flow associated to the partial differential equation ∂𝑔/∂𝑡=−2Ric[𝑔] on a Riemannian manifold
Kähler manifold
smooth manifold carrying compatible complex, Riemannian, and symplectic structures

sectional curvature
scalar quantity; given two unit tangent vectors u, v at the same point, defined as K(u,v) = ⟨R(u,v)v,u⟩/(1-⟨u,v⟩²), where R is the Riemann curvature
Nash embedding theorem
theorem
musical isomorphism
isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles on a smooth manifold; induced by either a RIemannian or symplectic structure
volume form
top-dimensional differential form that can be defined on orientable manifolds
Finsler manifold
smooth manifold equipped with a Minkowski functional at each tangent space

fundamental theorem of Riemannian geometry
unique existence of the Levi-Civita connection
Einstein manifold
Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian differentiable manifold whose Ricci tensor is proportional to the metric
Hilbert manifold
manifold modeled on Hilbert spaces; separable Hausdorff space in which each point has a neighborhood homeomorphic to an infinite dimensional Hilbert space
hyperbolic manifold
space where every point locally resembles a hyperbolic space
flat manifold
Riemannian manifold with vanishing Riemann curvature
spin structure
lift of the SO(n) frame bundle of an oriented Riemannian manifold into Spin(n), the spin group
sub-Riemannian manifold
type of generalization of a Riemannian manifold
Ricci-flat manifold
riemannian manifolds whose ricchi curvature vanishes
hyperkähler manifold
Riemannian manifold with Sp(n) holonomy, or equivalently with an S² family of Kähler structures