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It is satisfactory to have a nice functional analytic setting for the energy functional in Riemannian geometry. I'm currently deep into Klingenberg's book "Riemannian geometry" which (among other ...

Notations: Let $X$ be a manifold, and denote by $LX := C^\infty(S^1,X)$ its loop space. For a loop $\gamma \in LX$ we can think at the tangent space of $LX$ at the point $\gamma$ as the space of ...

In this paper, John Baez and Urs Schreiber define (see Definition 2.16) a Lie groupoid (there called a '2-space') associated to any manifold $M$. In fact it is a bundle of Lie groups over $M$ thought ...

While reading Morse theory, closed geodesics, and the homology of free loop spaces, the author claims the following: Given the $S^{n-1} \hookrightarrow Y_1 \rightarrow T^1S^n$ bundle over $T^1S^n$, ...

I am currently working with loop spaces of manifold and finite dimensional manifolds approximating these and the following comes up very naturally: In the following piece-wise smooth means smooth on ...