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We shall see later that any Ck-smooth (k ≥ 4) affinely connected manifold can be regarded as a smooth (universal) algebra with partial operations of a special kind. This motivates some preliminary consideration of smooth (universal) algebras.
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Sabinin, L.V. (1999). Basic Smooth Structures. In: Smooth Quasigroups and Loops. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 492. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4491-9_4
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