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in angle can be defined everywhere except the origin. Integrating this derivative along a path gives the total change in angle over the path, and integrating over a closed loop gives the
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to the real numbers. In this case, each tangent space is naturally identifiable with the real number line, and the linear map
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of the punctured plane. This is the most basic example of such a form, and it is fundamental in differential geometry.
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While the angle "function" cannot be continuously defined – the function atan2 is discontinuous along the negative
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is not a globally defined smooth function on the entire punctured plane. In fact, this form generates the first
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transformation law on passing from one coordinate system to another. Thus a one-form is an order 1 covariant
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whose restriction to each fibre is a linear functional on the tangent space. Symbolically,
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The most basic non-trivial differential one-form is the "change in angle" form
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First Steps in Differential Geometry: Riemannian, Contact, Symplectic
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function. Taking the derivative yields the following formula for the
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Differential form of degree one or section of a cotangent bundle
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are smooth functions. From this perspective, a one-form has a
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This is the simplest example of a differential (one-)form.
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This is defined as the derivative of the angle "function"
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Equivalently, a one-form on a manifold 1658:Covariance and contravariance of vectors 1223: 899:{\displaystyle U\subseteq \mathbb {R} } 824:, this derivative is a one-form on the 7: 1069:a linear map from the tangent space 975:{\displaystyle f:U\to \mathbb {R} ,} 1136:in question is given by scaling by 1521:Tensors in curvilinear coordinates 612: 562: 14: 1255:McInerney, Andrew (2013-07-09). 161: 1997:Differentiable/Smooth manifold 1164: 1151: 1118: 961: 929: 917: 644: 632: 594: 582: 516: 504: 395: 389: 353: 347: 317: 311: 269:Often one-forms are described 216: 180: 148: 1: 1574:Exterior covariant derivative 1506:Tensor (intrinsic definition) 1599:Raising and lowering indices 522:{\displaystyle \theta (x,y)} 120:{\displaystyle \mathbb {R} } 2703:Classification of manifolds 1837:Gluon field strength tensor 259:{\displaystyle \alpha _{x}} 77:is a smooth mapping of the 2843: 1648:Cartan formalism (physics) 1468:Penrose graphical notation 1173:{\displaystyle f'(x_{0}).} 1099:{\displaystyle 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Index

One-form (linear algebra)
differential geometry
differentiable manifold
differential form
smooth
section
cotangent bundle
total space
tangent bundle
locally
local coordinates
differentials
covariant
tensor field
atan2
total derivative
winding number
differential geometry
punctured plane
closed
exterior derivative
exact
de Rham cohomology
Differential of a function
open
differentiable function
derivative
Differential form
Inner product
Reciprocal lattice

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