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Riemannian Geometry/Bundle metrics
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bundle metric Let be a smooth vectur bundle. A bundle metric on is a family (), where each is a scalar product on , which satisfies the following smoothness condition: For all , the map
is smooth, ie. contained in .
Riemannian metric Let be a smooth manifold. A Riemannian metric is a bundle metric on the tangent space .