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C-infinity topology

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Topology

Differential geometry

Mapping space

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Idea

The Whitney C k topology is a topology on the set C (X,Y) of smooth functions between two smooth manifolds, induced from the natural topology of the order-k jet space of maps from X to Y.

Often, and espcially for k= this is just called the C k-topology .

References

  • Kriegl, Michor, …

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Revised on June 3, 2011 08:41:44 by Urs Schreiber (89.204.137.115)