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Errata for

Differential Geometry: Connections, Curvature, and


Characteristic Classes
Loring W. Tu
April 1, 2024

• p. 14, Problem 2.4, second display: (f ′ (x))2


• p. 24, last display: DZ < X, Y > should be Z < X, Y >.
• p. 30, line 1: on → along
• p. 40, Problem 5.4: Need to assume that the Gauss map is one-to-one and the Gaussian curvature K
is of one sign (either ≥ 0 or ≤ 0) on M .
• p. 62, (8.5): The second term −⟨L(X), Z⟩L(X) should be −⟨L(Y ), Z⟩L(X).
• p. 62, last display: R(X, Y ) should be R(X, Y )Z
• p. 67, second equation in the last dispay: (∇X Y )nor should be (DX Z)nor .
• p. 67, last line: E should be M .
• p. 69, first display: R(X, Y ) should be R(X, Y )Z.
• p. 81, Section 11.2, second paragraph: “X, Y ∈ X(U )” should be “X ∈ X(U ), Y ∈ Γ(U, E)”.
• p. 105, Prop. 14.5: Replace “manifold with a connection” with “Riemannian manifold”.
• p. 140, below Equation (17.2): c(t) should be γ(s).
• p. 140, the first line of Proposition 17.2: “an affine connection” should be “the Riemannian connection”
(because the connection should be compatible with the metric in order to use Proposition 11.4 in the
proof).
• p. 141, line 1: ei,c(t) and Dei,c(t) /ds should be ei,γ(s) and Dei,γ(s) /ds, respectively.
Vn Vn
• p. 167, the first line of the proof of Lemma 19.7: V → V should be V →R
∼
• p. 179, second display: f ∗ (E|Uα ) = (f ∗ E)|f −1 (Uα ) −
→ f −1 (Uα ) × V
• p. 189, the second paragraph of the proof of Proposition 21.1: “To show that α ∧ β is smooth” should
be “To show that α · β is smooth.”
• p. 199, line after second display: Replace “this may be an infinite sum” by “the Betti numbers bi may
be infinite”.
• p. 200, second display: bi = bn−i should be bi = bn−i .
• p. 205, bottom display: In the second term, R(X, W )Y should be R(Z, W )Y .
• p. 209, Section 22.8, first display: Tp M × Tp M → Tp M should be Tp M × Tp M → R.
• p. 212, lines 7–8: this global form P (Ω) is closed and its cohomology class is independent of the
connection.

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• p. 221, second display: The two vertical arrows should be pointing up instead of down.
• p. 235, Section 25.8: “As before, one shows that [Q(Ω)] is closed and ...” should be “As before, one
shows that Q(Ω) is closed and ...”
• p. 266, Proposition 29.6, second line: Replace “a manifold M of dimension n” by “a manifold M of
dimension n, and let π : Fr(E) → M be its frame bundle”.
• p. 279, below Example 31.10: Ω0p (P, V ) should be Ω0ρ (P, V ).

• p. 289, proof of (ii) and (iii): The sentence starting with “Since the Ωi are right-equivariant . . .” is
incorrect so that the rest of the proof is invalid. One way to fix this is to follow Kobayashi and Nomizu
[12 in the References], vol. 2, p. 295, by first showing that there is a one-to-one correspondence between
degree n homogeneous polynomials and n-multilinear functions and then continuing with their proof.
• p. 303, line after first display: Tp M should be Tp N .
• p. 322, solution 2.5: the denominator should have an exponent 3/2.

• p. 322, last line: dNc(t) /dt should be Nc(t) .


• p. 324, line -3: 2ÿ should be ÿ.

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