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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Minor improvements to the introduction
Riemannian Geometry course project on the manifold H¹(I, M) of class H¹ curves on a Riemannian manifold M and its applications to the geodesics problem
Minor improvements to the introduction
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diff --git a/sections/introduction.tex b/sections/introduction.tex @@ -34,13 +34,14 @@ maximizing functions by studying the critical points of \(f\). More generally, modern calculus of variations is concerned with the study of critical points of smooth functionals \(\Gamma(E) \to \mathbb{R}\), where \(E \to M\) is a smooth fiber bundle over a finite-dimensional manifold \(M\) and \(\Gamma\) is a given -section functor, such as smooth sections or Sobolev sections -- notice that by -taking \(E = M \times N\) the manifold \(\Gamma(E)\) is naturally identified -with a space of functions \(M \to N\), which gets us back to the original case. +section functor, such as smooth sections, continuous sections or Sobolev +sections -- notice that by taking \(E = M \times N\) the manifold \(\Gamma(E)\) +is naturally identified with a space of functions \(M \to N\), which gets us +back to the original case. In these notes we hope to provide a very brief introduction to modern theory the calculus of variations by exploring one of the simplest concrete examples -of the previously described program: we study the differential structure of the +of the previously described program. We study the differential structure of the Banach manifold \(H^1(I, M)\) of class \(H^1\) curves in a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold \(M\), which encodes the solution to the \emph{classic} variational problem: that of geodesics. Hence the particular action functional