Grupos de holonomia e o teorema de decomposição de de Rham

Abstract

In this report we give a brief description of holonomy groups of Riemannian manifolds and prove some technical results needed to guarentee the existence of a de Rham decomposition of a complete and simply connected Riemannian manifold. Such an existence constitutes itself as the core of a famous result on holonomy groups, they so-called de Rham's decomposition theorem, whose proof is our ultimate goal.