What is a smooth manifold? - Through defining functions

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Delves into topological entropy in compact manifolds and Reeb flows, emphasizing the forcing of entropy via cylindrical contact homology.

Dynamics of Steady Euler Flows: New Results

Explores the dynamics of steady Euler flows on Riemannian manifolds, covering ideal fluids, Euler equations, Eulerisable flows, and obstructions to exhibiting plugs.

Riemannian metrics and gradients: Riemannian gradients

Explains Riemannian submanifolds, metrics, and gradients computation on manifolds.

Embedded Submanifolds: Stiefel Manifold

Covers embedded submanifolds, Stiefel manifold, tangent spaces, and differential ranks.

Optimality conditions: second order

Explores necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for local minima on manifolds, focusing on second-order critical points.

Gradient Descent

Explores gradient descent methods for optimizing functions on manifolds, emphasizing small gradient guarantees and global convergence.

Smooth maps and differentials: Differentials

Explores smooth maps, differentials, composition properties, linearity, and extensions on manifolds.

Smooth sets and functions: Charts and atlases

Explores smooth functions, n-dimensional charts, compatibility, and atlases for manifolds.

Grassmann manifold and Retractions

Covers the Grassmann manifold and retractions on submanifolds.

Differentiating Vector Fields: Definition

Introduces differentiating vector fields along curves on manifolds with connections and the unique operator satisfying specific properties.