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This chapter is devoted to the study of a particularly important construction involving vector fields, called the Lie derivative. This is a method of computing the “directional derivative” of a vector field with respect to another vector field.
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Lee, J.M. (2003). Lie Derivatives. In: Introduction to Smooth Manifolds. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 218. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21752-9_18
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