Differential Topology

10 credits

Course, Master's level, 1MA259

Autumn 2023 Autumn 2023, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English Only available as part of a programme

Autumn 2023 Autumn 2023, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English For exchange students

Autumn 2024 Autumn 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English Only available as part of a programme

Autumn 2024 Autumn 2024, Uppsala, 33%, On-campus, English For exchange students

About the course

The course contains Manifolds, submanifolds, smooth maps, tangent space, and tangent bundles. The constant rank theorem. Immersions and embeddings. Submersions. Transversality. Sard's theorem. Brouwer's fixed-point theorem. Intersection theory modulo 2. Jordan-Brouwer's separation theorem. Orientation. Oriented intersection theory. Lefschetz's fixed-point theorem. The degree of a map. Hopf's degree theorem. Vector fields on manifolds and Poincaré-Hopf's theorem. Morse functions. Classification of one- and two-dimensional manifolds.

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