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Holonomy Groups in Riemannian Geometry

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Holonomy Groups in Riemannian Geometry
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Publisher: arXiv
Number of pages: 124

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The holonomy group is one of the fundamental analytical objects that one can define on a Riemannian manfold. These notes provide a first introduction to the main general ideas on the study of the holonomy groups of a Riemannian manifold.

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