@inbook{ba57a306634d45feb80404f09c243bdc,
title = "Background Material",
abstract = "This chapter establishes the notational conventions used throughout while also providing results and computations needed for later analyses. Readers familiar with differential geometry may wish to skip this chapter and refer back when necessary.",
keywords = "Covariant Derivative, Riemannian Manifold, Sectional Curvature, Tensor Product, Vector Bundle",
author = "Ben Andrews and Christopher Hopper",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2011, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-16286-2_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642159664",
series = "Lecture Notes in Mathematics",
publisher = "Springer Verlag",
pages = "11--47",
booktitle = "The Ricci Flow in Riemannian Geometry",
address = "Germany",
}