Differential geometry MOC

Tangent bundle

Let 𝑀 be a 𝐶𝛼-manifold. The tangent bundle is a vector bundle of all the tangent spaces of 𝑀, #m/def/geo/diff so as a set

𝑇𝑀=∐𝑝∈𝑀𝑇𝑝𝑀=⋃𝑝∈𝑀{𝑝}×𝑇𝑝𝑀.

The construction of topological and 𝐶𝛼-structure is a little more involved. Let 𝒜 be the maximal atlas for 𝑀, so each (𝑥,𝑈) ∈𝒜 gives a 𝐶𝛼-isomorphism

𝑥:𝑈→ℝ𝑛

which induces a bijection

˜𝑥:𝜋−1𝑈→ℝ𝑛×ℝ𝑛(𝑝,𝑣𝜇𝜕𝜇)↦(𝑥(𝑝),(𝑣𝜇))

which induce an atlas on 𝑇𝑀. Thus 𝐴 ⊆𝑇𝑀 is open iff ˜𝑥(𝐴 ∩𝜋−1𝑈) is open for every (𝑥,𝑈) ∈𝒜.


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