# Difference between revisions of "Differential manifold"

## Definition

### Definition in terms of atlases

A differential manifold or smooth manifold is the following data:

• A topological manifold $M$ (in particular, $M$ is Hausdorff and second-countable)
• An atlas of coordinate charts on $M$ to $\R^n$ (in other words an open cover of $M$ with homeomorphisms from each member of the open cover to open sets in $\R^n$

satisfying the compatibility condition: the transition function between any two coordinate charts of the atlas is a diffeomomorphism of open subsets of $\R^n$.

By diffeomorphism, we here mean a $C^{\infty}$ map with a $C^{\infty}$ inverse.

upto the following equivalence:

Two atlases of coordinate charts on a topological space define the same differential manifold structure if given any coordinate chart in one and any coordinate chart in the other, the transition function between them is a diffeomorphism.

### Definition in terms of sheaves

A differential manifold or smooth manifold is the following data:

Such that every point has a neighbourhood with a homeomorphism to an open set in $\R^n$, such that the sheaf restriction to that open set, corresponds to the sheaf of infinitely differentiable functions on that open set.