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Typically, thecotangentspaceis defined as the dual space of the tangent space at "x", although there are more direct definitions (see below).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For mechanical systems, the phase space usually consists of all possible values of position and momentum variables (i.e. thecotangentspaceof configuration space).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Likewise,cotangentspaceis a contravariant functor, essentially the composition of the tangent space with the dual space above.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecotangentspacewill then consist of all the possible first-order behaviors of a function near x.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tangent space is, the dual vector space to thecotangentspace.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tangent space and thecotangentspaceat a point are both real vector spaces of the same dimension and therefore isomorphic to each other via many possible isomorphisms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thecotangentspaceat a point is the dual of the tangent space at that point, and the cotangent bundle is the collection of all cotangent spaces.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The term "microlocal" implies localisation not only with respect to location in the space, but also with respect tocotangentspacedirections at a given point.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Analytic mappings induce pushforward maps on tangent spaces and pullback maps on cotangent spaces.
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