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Towards Riemannian diffeology

Differential Geometry 2026-02-05 v3 Category Theory Geometric Topology Metric Geometry

Abstract

We introduce a framework for Riemannian diffeology. To this end, we use the tangent functor in the sense of Blohmann and one of the options of a metric on a diffeological space in the sense of Iglesias-Zemmour. As a consequence, the category consisting of weak Riemannian diffeological spaces and isometries is established. With a technical condition for a definite weak Riemannian metric, we show that the pseudodistance induced by the metric is indeed a distance. As examples of weak Riemannian diffeological spaces, an adjunction space of manifolds, a space of smooth maps and the mixed one are considered.

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@article{arxiv.2505.04170,
  title  = {Towards Riemannian diffeology},
  author = {Katsuhiko Kuribayashi and Keiichi Sakai and Yusuke Shiobara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04170},
  year   = {2026}
}

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26 pages

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