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b-vector fields

Last time I showed that the space of vector fields tangent to the boundary of a manifold with corners

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consists precisely of those vector fields which in any adapted coordinate system take the form

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with smooth coefficients tex2html_wrap_inline258 and tex2html_wrap_inline260 An easy computation with the Jacobian shows that the transition maps between coordinate systems are smooth, so the vector space with local coordinate bases tex2html_wrap_inline262 tex2html_wrap_inline264 tex2html_wrap_inline266 and tex2html_wrap_inline268 form a vector bundle tex2html_wrap_inline270 Then

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Richard B. Melrose
Thu Sep 19 07:37:20 EDT 1996