Semester page for MAT4520 - Spring 2012

Depending on the number of students, the exam will take place on the 11th, 12th and 13th of June. All students who intend to take the exam in MAT4520 must meet up 11th of June 9.15am at room 534 Niels Henrik Abels hus, to get assigned time for the individual oral examination. You find more information under the link Examination/form of assessment-> Time and place

Note that the examination will be in room 534 (5-th floor) (and not in B 63 (as I had written in the message of 18.05)).

June 5, 2012 6:21 PM

The final syllabus for the course is the chapters 1-5 and 7-8 in Spivak, and the supplementary notes about de Rham Cohomology by Bjørn Jahren with the following modifications:

Given an oriented manifold with boundary, you need to know the definition of the induced orientation of the boundary. This definition is given in problem 16 of chapter 3 and this definition is included in the syllabus (the definition of induced orientation is repeated in chapter 8 on p. 260).

In chapter 5 I have not lectured proposition 15 and this is not part of the syllabus.

Proposition 14, chapter 7 (the Frobenius integrability theorem) and the following corollary (Corollary 15) is not part of the syllabus.

I have not said anything about volume elements and therefore the stuff about this (page 258-259 in chapter 8) is not part of the syllabus.

In the notes by Jahren I have not explained the ring structure of the de Rham Cohomology for the complex projective spaces (p...

May 25, 2012 1:26 PM

Tuesday May 29. I will look at the problems set Ma 252, 2001. (There will be no lecture on Monday May 28. (Whitmonday)).

May 24, 2012 5:18 PM