Manifolds of Differentiable Mappings
by Peter W. Michor
Publisher: Birkhauser 1980
ISBN/ASIN: 0906812038
ISBN-13: 9780906812037
Number of pages: 165
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This book is devoted to the theory of manifolds of differentiable mappings and contains result which can be proved without the help of a hard implicit function theorem of nuclear function spaces. All the necessary background is developed in detail.
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