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Manifolds of smooth maps

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

Truong Công Nghê
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
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Abstract

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We show that the space of smooth maps from a compact smooth manifold into another smooth manifold can be endowed with the structure of a smooth manifold if we use the Γ-differentiation of Yamamuro. We then generalise the Smale Density Theorem to mappings between these manifolds.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1981

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