Lecture Notes on Comparison Geometry

Overview & Synopsis

This note contains below topics, Solutions of Jacobi Equations, Model Spaces Hessian Cosine Law, Local Comparison Theorems, Global Toponogov Comparison Theorems, Appliction of Toponogov s Comparison Theorem, Manifolds of Nonnegative Curvature, CheegerGromoll Soul Theorem, CheegerGromoll Soul Conjecture, CheegerGromoll Splitting Theorem, CheegerGromoll Covering Theorem, BishopGromov Volume Comparison, GromovHausdorff Convergence of Metric Spaces, Alexandrov Spaces, GrovePeterson Homotopy Type Theorem.