A metric tangential calculus

Elisabeth Burroni and Jacques Penon

The metric jets, introduced here, generalize the jets (at order one) of Charles Ehresmann. In short, for a ``good'' map f (said to be ``tangentiable'' at a) between metric spaces, we define its metric jet tangent at a (composed of all the maps which are locally lipschitzian at a and tangent to f at a) called the ``tangential'' of f at a, and denoted Tf_a. So, in this metric context, we define a ``new differentiability'' (called ``tangentiability'') which extends the classical differentiability (while preserving most of its properties) to new maps, traditionally pathologic.

Keywords: differential calculus, jets, metric spaces, categories

2000 MSC: 58C25, 58C20, 58A20, 54E35, 18D20

Theory and Applications of Categories, Vol. 23, 2010, No. 10, pp 199-220.

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