A tangent bundle is the collection of all of the tangent spaces for all points on a manifold, structured in a way that it forms a new manifold itself....
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to the manifold at that point. Tangent bundles are not, in general, trivial bundles. For example, the tangent bundle of the sphere is non-trivial by...
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Differentiable manifold (section Tangent bundle)
2n. The tangent bundle is where tangent vectors lie, and is itself a differentiable manifold. The Lagrangian is a function on the tangent bundle. One can...
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Vector field (redirect from Tangent bundle section)
setting, a vector field gives a tangent vector at each point of the manifold (that is, a section of the tangent bundle to the manifold). Vector fields...
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frame bundle of a smooth manifold is the one associated with its tangent bundle. For this reason it is sometimes called the tangent frame bundle. Let E...
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vector bundle in question is the tangent bundle T M {\displaystyle TM} , the unit sphere bundle is known as the unit tangent bundle. A sphere bundle is partially...
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a field of mathematics, a normal bundle is a particular kind of vector bundle, complementary to the tangent bundle, and coming from an embedding (or...
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point in the manifold. It may be described also as the dual bundle to the tangent bundle. This may be generalized to categories with more structure than...
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the tangent bundle. A choice of affine connection is also equivalent to a notion of parallel transport, which is a method for transporting tangent vectors...
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geometry, the holomorphic tangent bundle of a complex manifold M {\displaystyle M} is the holomorphic analogue of the tangent bundle of a smooth manifold....
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