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At every point p of a differentiable manifold M, one can introduce a linear space, called the tangent space T P (M). A tensor field is a (smooth) map which assigns to each point p ∈ M a tensor of a given type on T P (M).
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Straumann, N. (2004). Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields. In: General Relativity. Texts and Monographs in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11827-6_11
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