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The free smooth path space on a manifold

Let $M$ be a closed, smooth manifold and let $PM$ be the space of unbased piecewise smooth paths $[0,1] \to M$. Then restricting a path to its boundary gives a map $$ PM \to M \times M . $$ Question ...