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Smooth manifolds and smooth functions between them. For manifolds with additional structure, see more specific tags, such as [riemannian-geometry]. For more topological aspects, see [differential-topology].
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A text about Schwartz distributions in vector bundles
If $M$ is a smooth manifold, one may talk about the space of test functions $\mathcal D (M)$ and its topological dual $\mathcal D ' (M)$ - the space of Schwartz distributions on $M$.
Now, if $E \to M$ …
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There exists differentiable curves arbitrarily close to the continuous ones
Let $M$ be a Riemannian manifold; if $d$ is the distance on $M$, we can consider the distance $D$ between any two continuous curves given by $D(c, \gamma) = \max _{t \in [0,1]} d(c(t), \gamma(t))$.
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Can one extend a Hermitian bundle from a compact manifold with boundary to its Riemannian do...
Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary, and let $E \to M$ be a Hermitian vector bundle, endowed with a compatible connection. Let $\tilde M$ be a Riemannian double of $M$.
Does $E$ ex …
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An abstract characterization of line integrals
Let $M$ be a smooth manifold (endowed with a Riemann structure, if useful). If $\omega \in \Omega^1 (M)$ is a smooth $1$-form and $c : [0,1] \to M$ is a smooth curve, one defines the line integral of …
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Riemannian manifolds: every compact subset is contained in a connected relatively compact op... [closed]
While working on some problem (not relevant here), it turned out to be convenient to be able to enclose arbitrary compact subsets in "nicer" compact subsets, hence the question:
if $(M,g)$ is a Ri …
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Motivation behind the parabolic metric
Here is one reason, the core of which can be found at page 17 of Moser's book mentioned in the comments. Many theorems about the heat equation are valid on "cylindrical" domains of the form $(0,T) \ti …
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Geodesic-like curves stemming from the heat kernel on a manifold
Consider a smooth $n$-dimensional Riemannian manifold $M$ with sufficiently nice geometric and topological properties such that there exist a unique heat kernel $(t,x,y) \mapsto p(t,x,y)$ on it ($t>0$ …
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Non-diffeomorphic smooth structures on the quotient of a manifold by an integrable distribution
In geometric quantization, one of the important ingredients is an integrable distribution $D$ (let's say real) on some manifold $M$ (symplectic, but this is not important). The resulting object is $M/ …
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Do smooth manifolds admit linear atlases? [duplicate]
There is a theorem of Whitney showing that a smooth manifold can be endowed with a compatible real-analytic atlas (later, it was proven that this analytic structure is essentially unique).
I am curio …
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How to visualize the dual objects of jets of functions?
I work with a smooth $f: M \to \Bbb C$ and I would like to have an object mimicking the concept of "$k$-th order differential" from multivariate calculus. For various reasons that are not important he …
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Glueing together functions defined on the leaves of a foliation
Even though my question can be asked for very general types of foliations, I am interesetd only in its answer for Poisson manifolds, which are what I am currently studying.
Consider a Poisson manifol …
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Nash-type theorems for Poisson manifolds
My question comes as a natural follow-up of the previous one which concerned symplectic manifolds: if $(M, P)$ is a Poisson manifold, what embedding theorems are there into some target space (I am loo …
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Is there a Nash-type theorem for symplectic manifolds?
If $(M, \omega)$ is a symplectic manifold, is it possible to embed (or injectively immerse) it symplectically into a sufficiently large $(\Bbb R ^{2N}, \Omega)$, (with the usual symplectic structure)? …
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Recovering a smooth manifold from its tensor fields
1) Consider the algebra $\mathcal T (M) = \bigoplus \limits _{p, q \ge 0} \mathcal T ^{p, q} (M)$, where $\mathcal T ^{p, q} (M)$ is the space of tensor fields of type $(p,q)$. I should endow it with …
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The heat kernel as an exponential of an integral
In $\mathbb{R}^n$, if $\gamma$ is a line segment between $x_0 = \gamma (0)$ and $x = \gamma (t)$, one has the following formula:
$$\frac {\mathbb{e}^{- \frac{1}{4} \int_0^t <\dot{\gamma}, \dot{\gamma …