Differentiable manifolds

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Suppose I want a notion of differentiability on the curve γ:RM where M is a topological manifold. If we want to lift the notion of differentiability on the curve, from the charted curve, which is from R to Rd, it better be that the overlapping part of any two charts agree.
Indeed, x1y is a homeomorphism from Rd to Rd, which means its both ways continuous and bijective. but we want x1y to be differentiable not just continuous.

So its not enough to take ANY charts on the manifold M, For example, if we take the maximal Atlas on M, meaning that it contains all possible valid charts that we can put.
So from the maximal atlas, we might want to THROW OUT all charts such that all transition functions between the remaining charts are differentiable.

Compatible charts

Two charts (U,x),(V,y) are D compatible if either:

  • UY=
    or:
  • yx1|UV and xy1|UV are both differentiable under the same notion D

In this case, The atlas with all such charts may be denoted AD. The triple (M,ΘM,AD) is then a differentiable manifold under the notion D.

The below picture asks on what kinds of condition "flower" we can ask for the charts. We have Ck meaning it is k times continuous differentiable. We have C which is really cool, if we have chart transition map from R2dR2d, we can treat them as complex numbers, and complex differentiability means that the Cauchy Reimann equations are satisfied, and these maps are infinitely continuous and differentiable. We want C which are called smooth manifolds (infinitely differentiable and continuous at each level) Support/Figures/Pasted image 20250125113024.png

Whitney's theorem

If there Ck- manifold (M,Θ,ACk) for k1, then there is a sub-atlas of ACk, which is a C atlas.

Thus we may WLOG always consider smooth CManifolds.

C maps

If (M,ΘM,AM),(N,ΘN,AN) are both smooth manifolds, of dimensions m,n. Then ϕ:MN is a C map if for any chart (U,x)AM and any chart (V,y)AN, The charted map gU,V:Rmx(U)y(V)Rn is a smooth function.
Notice that ϕ|UV=y1gx. Or g=yϕ|UVx1.
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Moreover, if there are alternative charting maps x~ on U and y~ on V, then it better be that h=y~ϕ|UVx~1 is also a smooth map. This holds good, because the chart transition maps between x,x~ and y,y~ are smooth maps.
More formally, y~=tyy~y and x~1=x1tx1x~1. Hence, h=tyy~gtx1x~1. But since both of the transition maps is smooth, and g is smooth, h is also smooth.
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Diffeomorphic

If (M,ΘM,AM),(N,ΘN,AN) are both smooth manifolds, then they are diffeomorphic if there exists a bijection ϕ:MN such that both ϕ and ϕ1 are C maps. It is a very cool theorem that given a C0 manifold, only for dimension 4 we have an uncountably infinite number of sub-atlases that gives us a smooth manifold (upto diffeomorphism) from the given C0 manifold.

(CM)

Let (M,ΘM,AM) be a smooth manifold, R is trivially a smooth manifold (with the identity map id:RR serving as the single global chart, and hence no chart transition maps to consider).
Then the set of all smooth maps (C) maps from MR is called C(M), and can be equipped with a vector space structure. With the usual function addition and scalar multiplication we all know and love.

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Imagine you there is an ant, walking on the curve γ on the manifold M, now the ant knows that the curve γ is a function of time, so roughly γ:RM is a smooth map or C map from R to M. But let us say that the ant is directionally challenged (especially on this complicated manifold), mathematically gifted, and has a very astute sense of absolute temperature at any point in the manifold. So It cannot find out its own path or velocity so far, but given a temperature mapping f:MR
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So for any given temperature map f, the ant is very good at understanding the map fγ, but doesn't have a very good sense of γ itself, as a function of say time.

Let p be a point on γ, that is γ(x0)=p. Then what is the velocity of γ at p? The ant is very smart and realizes that the velocity that it feels, is actually a function of the temperature map f. So in some sense, f gives you the "Direction" along which you take the velocity.
vγ,p is actually a function of f, depending on what temperature ("direction") mapping you give the ant, it will give you a velocity.
in particular, vγ,p is the map that takes f to vγ,p(f)=(fγ)(x0).
In fact vγ,p:C(M)R is a linear map from the vector space of all smooth functions from MR, TO R.

First notice that ((f+g)γ)(t)=(f+g)(γ(t))=(fγ)(t)+(gγ)(t) (f,g are from C(M) which is a vector space).
Therefore, (f+g)γ)(t)=((fγ)(t)+(gγ)(t))=(fγ)(t)+(gγ)(t)

Hence, vγ,p(f+g)=vγ,p(f)+vγ,p(g).
Similarly we can show vγ,p(λf)=λvγ,p(f)

Tangent vector space

For each pM of a smooth manifold, define the set TpM={vγ,p:for all smooth curves γ}
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So you have all these different smooth curves, each giving tangent vectors at the point p on the smooth manifold. So we can get addition and scalar multiplication on TpM easily
Support/Figures/Pasted image 20250125152644.png In general the result is a linear map from C(M) to R, but we want the result to be another vector in the tangent space, namely we want the result in TpM itself, to get closure on the vector space.
for any λR and any tangent vector vγ,p there exists a curve δ such that for all fC(M), vδ,p(f)=λvγ,p(f) That is, $$ (f\circ\delta)'(y_{0}) = \lambda(f \circ \gamma)'(x_{0})$$ Where δ(y0)=γ(x0)=pM.
What about introducing a map RhRγMfR
such that (fγh)(y0)=λ(fγ)(x0)? By the chain rule, the equation simplifies to $$ (f\circ \gamma)'(h(y_{0}))h'(y_{0}) = \lambda(f\circ \gamma)'(x_{0})$$
(Here δ=γh, where since γ is smooth, and h will chosen to be smooth, δ will be smooth too)
But what h do we pick? what about h(t)=λt+x0? firstly let us solve for y0, we want γ(h(y0))=γ(x0) it is sufficent if h(y0)=x0, and with our choice for h, y0=0. In any case h(y0)=λ and h(0=y0)=x0, giving the desired inequality.

Now comes the harder part:
pick any two elements of TpM say vγ,p, vδ,p. We must show that there exists a smooth curve h such that for all "temperature" C(M)/smooth maps from f:MR $$v_{\gamma,p}(f) + v_{\delta,p}(f) = v_{h,p}(f)$$.
Its time for A CRAZY setup again. First, we will make the curve h chart dependent, and then see if we can correct that sin.
Pick a chart (U,x) such that pU. choose t0,t1R such that γ(t0)=δ(t1)=p
now define: $$ h_{x}(t) = x^{-1}\left((x \circ \gamma)(t_{0} + t) + (x \circ \delta)(t_{1}+t)- (x \circ \gamma)(t_{0})\right )$$
Let hx reminds us that our definition of the curve h is still chart dependent. It is clear that indeed hx(0)=p *by the way, the whole curves γ,δ need not lie in the chart open set U, because only the point p and thus only hx(0) is what we want to compute on. *

So looking at the commutative diagram,hx uses maps from RRd namely (xγ),(xδ) and then inverts to the open set U in the manifold. Now, $$ v_{h_{x},p} (f) = (f \circ h_{x})'(0)$$as usual, we introduce the identity to use undergrad notion of derivatives in vector spaces: x1x giving us

vhx,p(f)=((fx1)(xhx))(0)

Looking at the commutative diagram above again, (fx1)=p:RdR and (xhx)=q:RRd. So both these parts are "undergaduate derivative compatible".
Now we shut up and calculate.
if we peturb an input to q, a d dimensional vector is perturbed as the output, which is then fed into p. Let us look at a computational graph.

so now, as we know in multi-variable chain rule, we multiple along each path and add up the paths. A single path looks like yiiz which is q(t)iip(q(t))q(t) which we want to evaluate at t=0

Now, $$(x \circ h_{x})'(t) = (x \circ \gamma)'(t_{0} + t) + (x \circ \delta)'(t_{1}+ t)$$

at t = 0, $$(x \circ h_{x})'(0) = (x \circ \gamma)'(t_{0}) + (x \circ \delta)'(t_{1})$$

then, at t=0, ip(q(t))q(t)=(fx1)((xhx)(0))=(fx1)(x(p))

so our single path chain rule now is just

(xγ)(t0)+(xδ)(t1))((fx1)(x(p)))$$rememberitsjusttheithcomponentoverthewholething,IamnottrippingIamnotjustindicatingthecomponent.sowecandistributeout,andIwillputthecomponentsbackin.$$((xγ)(t0)i  (fx1)(x(p))i)+((xδ)(t1)i  (fx1)(x(p))i)

Now we have two terms, that both look like independent single variable chain rules. it is again very important to play atenttion to the commutative diagram.

well what's the immediate input to (fx1)? x(p) of course, which lives in Rd. But x(p)=(xγ)(t0)=(xδ)(t1). Which means that its a reverse chain rule!

our single component path derivative is now $$ (f \circ \gamma)'(t_{0}){i} + (f\circ \delta)(t_{1})_{i}$$

Summing over the components, finally!!

vhx,p(f)=(fhx)(0)=(fγ)(t0)+(fδ)(t1)=vγ,p+vδ,p

OMG!!!

And so hx is absolutely chart independent!! x does not matter at all.

So TpM is closed under addition, scalar multiplication, and is a vector space due to its linear properties.