Abstract
We have already encountered diffeomorphisms in the previous chapter as one-to-one invertible bothways-differentiable maps of a manifold onto itself. We now define maps between different manifolds.
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(2009). Additional Topics in Geometry. In: Spacetime, Geometry and Gravitation. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 56. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-9971-9_10
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