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Section (Tangent Bundle)

A Vector Field is a section of its Tangent Bundle, meaning that to every point $x$ in a Manifold $M$, a Vector $X(x)\in T_x M$ is associated, where $T_x$ is the Tangent Space.

See also Tangent Bundle, Tangent Space




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1999-05-26