Journal of Mathematical Sciences

, Volume 200, Issue 6, pp 710–717 | Cite as

A Note on the Tangent Bundle and Gauss Functor of Posets and Manifolds

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We introduce a notion of the tangent bundle of a poset. In the case where the poset is the poset of simplices of a combinatorial manifold, the construction produces the best possible combinatorial model for the geometric compactified tangent bundle.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.St.Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute; Chebyshev LaboratorySt.Petersburg State UniversitySt.PetersburgRussia

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