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Differential geometry and mathematical physics part i. A warped product manifold is a riemannian or pseudoriemannian manifold whose metric tensor can be decomposes into a cartesian product of the. The topics dealt with include osculating spaces and fundamental forms of different orders, asymptotic and conjugate lines, submanifolds on the grassmannians, different aspects of the normalization problems for submanifolds with special emphasis given to a connection in. In order to define curvature and torsion of a space curve, one needs the wellknown frenet formulas which can be obtained as follows. Make sure that scanned documents are in easily readable pdf format.
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