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Tangent Bundle Section


A vector field is a section of its tangent bundle, meaning that to every point x in a manifold M, a vector X(x) in T_xM is associated, where T_x is the tangent space.


See also

Tangent Bundle, Tangent Space

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Tangent Bundle Section." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TangentBundleSection.html

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