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We develop the theory of smooth principal bundles for a smooth group $G$, using the framework of diffeological spaces. After giving new examples showing why arbitrary principal bundles cannot be classified, we define $D$-numerable bundles,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-12-29 J. Daniel Christensen , Enxin Wu

We study tiling spaces in the diffeological context. We prove some basic diffeological properties for tiling spaces and analyze two different fiber bundle structures of tiling spaces over irrational tori. We use the diffeological…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Darío Alatorre , Diego Rodríguez-Guzmán

Every principal G-bundle is classified up to equivalence by a homotopy class of maps into the classifying space of G. On the other hand, for every nice topological space Milnor constructed a strict model of loop space, that is a group.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-24 Martina Rovelli

We develop a geometric framework for generalized Milnor classifying spaces in the setting of diffeological spaces and infinite-dimensional geometry. Starting from Milnor's construction, we introduce spherical and projective models endowed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We introduce a spherical variant of Milnor's classifying construction for diffeological groups, based on quadratic normalization of barycentric coordinates. This construction gives rise to a contractible diffeological space endowed with…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jean-Pierre Magnot

We study the relationship between many natural conditions that one can put on a diffeological vector space: being fine or projective, having enough smooth (or smooth linear) functionals to separate points, having a diffeology determined by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-12-25 J. Daniel Christensen , Enxin Wu

We consider the diffeological version of the Clifford algebra of a (diffeological) finite-dimensional vector space; we start by commenting on the notion of a diffeological algebra (which is the expected analogue of the usual one) and that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-06-07 Ekaterina Pervova

We define a subcategory of the category of diffeological spaces, which contains smooth manifolds, the diffeomorphism subgroups and its coadjoint orbits. In these spaces we construct a tangent bundle, vector fields and a de Rham cohomology.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlos A. Torre

We provide a rigorous construction of I.M. Singer's universal connection, a natural connection on a bundle of paths associated to any manifold, using the theory of diffeology. Furthermore, we generalize the universal connection to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Dion Mann

This paper deals with some basic constructions of linear and multilinear algebra on finite-dimensional diffeological vector spaces. We consider the diffeological dual formally checking that the assignment to each space of its dual defines a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Ekaterina Pervova

The purpose of this note is to define sheaves for diffeological spaces and give a construction of their \v{C}ech cohomology. As an application, we prove that the first degree \v{C}ech cohomology classes for the sheaf of smooth functions to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Derek Krepski , Jordan Watts , Seth Wolbert

We study how the notion of tangent space can be extended from smooth manifolds to diffeological spaces, which are generalizations of smooth manifolds that include singular spaces and infinite-dimensional spaces. We focus on two definitions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-07-11 J. Daniel Christensen , Enxin Wu

It is expected that the $D$-topology makes every diffeological vector space into a topological vector space. We show that it is the case for a large class of diffeological vector spaces via $k_\omega$-space theory, but not so in general.…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Enxin Wu , Zhongqiang Yang

We consider the class of profinite diffeological spaces, that is, diffeological spaces which diffeologies are deduced by pull-back of diffeologies on finite-dimensional manifolds through a system of projection mappings. This class includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Anahita Eslami-Rad , Jean-Pierre Magnot , Enrique G. Reyes

In this paper, we study diffeological spaces as certain kinds of discrete simplicial presheaves on the site of cartesian spaces with the coverage of good open covers. The \v{C}ech model structure on simplicial presheaves provides us with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Emilio Minichiello

We consider the problem of existence of representations of topological groupoids on a principal bundle and the classification of such representations up to gauge transformation. Such representations naturally occur in various contexts such…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Claude Hausmann

We slightly extend the notion of a natural fibre bundle by requiring diffeomorphisms of the base to lift to automorphisms of the bundle only infinitesimally, i.e. at the level of the Lie algebra of vector fields. Spin structures are natural…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Bas Janssens

Diffeological spaces are generalizations of smooth manifolds. In this paper, we study the homotopy theory of diffeological spaces. We begin by proving basic properties of the smooth homotopy groups that we will need later. Then we introduce…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-05-13 J. Daniel Christensen , Enxin Wu

This paper investigates spaces equipped with a family of metric-like functions satisfying certain axioms. These functions provide a unified framework for defining topology, uniformity, and diffeology. The framework is based on a family of…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Masaki Taho

We describe the structure of diffeological bundle of non formal classical pseudo-differential operators over formal ones, and its structure group. For this, we give few results on diffeological principal bundles with (a priori) no local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jean-Pierre Magnot
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