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Elements for a metric tangential calculus

Category Theory 2009-12-08 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

The metric jets, introduced in the first chapter, generalize the jets (at order one) of Charles Ehresmann. In short, for a "good" map ff (said to be "tangentiable" at aa), we define its metric jet tangent at aa (composed of all the maps which are locally lipschitzian at aa and tangent to ff at aa) called the "tangential" of ff at aa, and denoted Tfaf_a (the domain and codomain of ff being metric spaces). Furthermore, guided by the heuristic example of the metric jet Tfaf_a, tangent to a map ff differentiable at aa, which can be canonically represented by the unique continuous affine map it contains, we will extend, in the second chapter, into a specific metric context, this property of representation of a metric jet.This yields a lot of relevant examples of such representations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0912.1012,
  title  = {Elements for a metric tangential calculus},
  author = {Elisabeth Burroni and Jacques Penon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1012},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

99 pages, 5 figures

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