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Is there a sheaf theoretical characterization of a differentiable manifold?
I'm going through the crisis of being unhappy with the textbook definition of a differentiable manifold. I'm wondering whether there is a sheaf-theoretic approach which will make me happier. In a ...
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Is the category of diffeological spaces a full subcategory of locally ringed spaces?
It is known that the natural functor of smooth functions from the category of smooth manifolds into the category of locally ringed spaces is a full embedding (see, for example, here).
Is a similar ...