English

Diffeological, Fr\"{o}licher, and Differential Spaces

Differential Geometry 2023-05-05 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Differential calculus on Euclidean spaces has many generalisations. In particular, on a set XX, a diffeological structure is given by maps from open subsets of Euclidean spaces to XX, a differential structure is given by maps from XX to R\mathbb{R}, and a Fr\"{o}licher structure is given by maps from R\mathbb{R} to XX as well as maps from XX to R\mathbb{R}. We illustrate the relations between these structures through examples.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1712.04576,
  title  = {Diffeological, Fr\"{o}licher, and Differential Spaces},
  author = {Augustin Batubenge and Yael Karshon and Jordan Watts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.04576},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

37 pages; v2 has more examples, results on underlying topologies, and an appendix summarizing relationships with other smooth structures

R2 v1 2026-06-22T23:16:23.163Z