let $(M,g)$ be a Riemannian manifold. and Define the exponential map by $exp : TM \rightarrow M ,exp(x,v) = \gamma(1)$ where $\gamma$ is the geodesic with $\gamma (0) = x$ and $d/dt_{t=0} \gamma = v$ and $v$ sufficiently small. My question is: what is the differential of exp in some point $exp_{\star,(x,v)} : T_{(x,v)}(TM) \rightarrow TM$ ?
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closed as too localized by Andres Caicedo, Agol, Deane Yang, Andreas Blass, Simon Thomas May 12 2011 at 21:51 |

