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I'm currently reading Michor, Manifold of Mappings for Continuum Mechanics. In this paper he makes use of 'Whitney Jets' but takes it to be an already understood concept. I'm familiar with jets but ...

I am interested in learning the theory of Jet bundles, and am aware of the standard reference "The geometry of jet bundles" by D. J. Saunders. However this appears to be a detailed book, ...

This post is not about finding an answer to a certain problem - because the answer already exists - but rather about finding the simplest possible answer. The problem is: how to define the bundle $C(...

The (non-unique) bundle isomorphism between the bundle $J^r E$ of $r$-th order jets of sections of a vector bundle $\pi:E\rightarrow M$ and the direct sum $$\bigoplus^r_{k=0}\vee^kT^*M\otimes E\...

I was asking myself, if the following list of conditions is sufficient to determine the usual smooth structure on the spaces of $k$-jets. the map $j^k f:M\ni x\to j_x^k f\in J^k(M,N)$ is smooth, for ...