Geometry of Manifolds

Six figure-eights inside an oblong shape.

The symplectic sum of two Lefschetz fibrations. (Image courtesy of Prof. Denis Auroux.)

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MIT Course Number

18.966

As Taught In

Spring 2007

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

This is a second-semester graduate course on the geometry of manifolds. The main emphasis is on the geometry of symplectic manifolds, but the material also includes long digressions into complex geometry and the geometry of 4-manifolds, with special emphasis on topological considerations.

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Denis Auroux. 18.966 Geometry of Manifolds. Spring 2007. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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