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Manifolds of mappings associated with real-valued function spaces and natural mappings between them

Differential Geometry 2025-10-03 v2

Abstract

Let MM be a compact smooth manifold with corners and NN be a finite dimensional smooth manifold without boundary which admits local addition. We define a smooth manifold structure to general sets of continuous mapings F(M,N)\mathcal{F}(M,N) whenever functions spaces F(U,R)\mathcal{F}(U,\mathbb{R}) on open subsets U[0,)nU\subseteq [0,\infty)^n are given, subject to simple axioms. Construction and properties of spaces of sections and smoothness of natural mappings between spaces F(M,N)\mathcal{F}(M,N) are discussed, like superposition operators F(M,f):F(M,N1)F(M,N2)\mathcal{F}(M,f):\mathcal{F}(M,N_1)\to \mathcal{F}(M,N_2), ηfη\eta \mapsto f\circ \eta for smooth maps f:N1N2f:N_1\to N_2.

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@article{arxiv.2506.03366,
  title  = {Manifolds of mappings associated with real-valued function spaces and natural mappings between them},
  author = {Matthieu F. Pinaud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.03366},
  year   = {2025}
}

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35 pages, corrected writing