How is a vector field on defined in terms of tangent spaces?
Conditions
- The ambient space in this example is .
Reasoning, step by step
- Identify the ambient space .
- For each point , consider its tangent space .
- Define the vector field as an assignment of a vector to each .
Example
The slide states "assigns v in to each p in ", and the narrator explains that a vector field over assigns a vector from the vector space to each point p in .
Common misconceptions
- Thinking of a tangent space as merely a tangent plane.
- Assuming a vector field assigns a single global vector to all points.
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