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| | What is a Vector Bundle? |
 | | So, the tangent bundle is a vector bundle, as is the cotangent bundle (the cotangent space at a point is the dual space to the tangent space). |
 | | A vector bundle is a family of vector spaces, one at each point of your base space, with one requirement: they must look locally like the product bundle, or trivial bundle UxV, where U is an open set in your base space and V is the model vector space for your vector bundle. |
 | | thus in algebra the analog of a trivial bundle is a free module, and the analog of a vector bundle is a "locally 'free" module. |
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