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Categories: Maps of manifolds, Smooth functions, Connection (mathematics), Differential geometry, Articles with short description
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affine connection
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In Differential geometry, an affine connection is a geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector fields to be differentiated as if they were functions on the manifold with values in a fixed vector space. Wikipedia
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In Differential geometry, an affine connection is a geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces, so it permits tangent vector fields to be differentiated as if they were functions on the manifold with values in a fixed vector space. Wikipedia
A connection on the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold Wikipedia Disambiguation
A geometric object on a smooth manifold which connects nearby tangent spaces Wikipedia Disambiguation
Construct allowing differentiation of tangent vector fields of manifolds Wikidata
IS A
connection
HAS KIND
Levi-Civita connection
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differential geometry
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affine connection
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affine connection

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