Differentials of diffeomorphisms #
The differentials of a diffeomorphism and its inverse undo each other, and the differential of a diffeomorphism undoes the pullback of vector fields along it. Differentiability at a point is also preserved by precomposition and postcomposition with a diffeomorphism, and the tangent images of a map, the ranges of its differentials, are unchanged by precomposition with a diffeomorphism and are mapped by the differential under postcomposition. These facts support inverse isometries and transport of curve differentiability through diffeomorphisms. The underlying equivalence of a diffeomorphism viewed as a partial diffeomorphism is also characterized, for composition with partial coordinates.
The partial equivalence underlying a diffeomorphism viewed as a partial diffeomorphism is its everywhere-defined equivalence.
The differentials of a diffeomorphism and its inverse compose to the identity.
The differential of the inverse undoes the differential of a diffeomorphism.
The differential of a diffeomorphism maps the pullback of a vector field at x to the value
of the field at h x.
Applying the tangent map of a diffeomorphism and then that of its inverse returns the original tangent vector.
Applying the tangent map of the inverse of a diffeomorphism and then that of the diffeomorphism returns the original tangent vector.
The tangent map of the inverse acts on a fibre by the inverse differential. This holds for every nonzero differentiability order, including finite orders.
Postcomposition with a diffeomorphism preserves differentiability at a point.
Precomposition with a diffeomorphism preserves differentiability at the corresponding point.
Postcomposition with a diffeomorphism maps tangent images by its differential: the range of
the differential of h ∘ f at x is the image of the range of the differential of f under the
linear equivalence dh, Diffeomorph.mfderivToContinuousLinearEquiv.
No differentiability of f is assumed: when f is not differentiable at x, neither is h ∘ f,
and both ranges are zero.
Precomposition with a diffeomorphism does not change tangent images: the range of the
differential of f ∘ h at x is the range of the differential of f at h x. No
differentiability of f is assumed.