Coordinate chart

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Noun

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  1. Template:Lb A homeomorphism from a local neighborhood around a point on a topological n-manifold in a Banach space to an n-dimensional Banach space (typically a subspace of the space the manifold is embedded in). Template:C
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Usage notes

  • Some authors refer to the pair of the neighborhood the mapping is defined on and the mapping together (i.e. (U,φ) instead of φ, where U=dom(φ)) as the coordinate chart while referring to the mapping alone as the coordinate map.

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