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tangent bundle  

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  • In differential geometry, the tangent bundle of a differentiable manifold M is a manifold TM which assembles all the tangent vectors in M. As a set, it is given by the disjoint union of the tangent spaces of M. (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent_bundle)

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