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The proteins formed as the result of the manifold differentiation processes can be classified with respect to their biological significance for and function within the producing organism as given in Table 6. In accordance with this schedule... 

For very low flow rates the orifice plate is often incorporated into a manifold, an integral part of the differential-pressure transmitter. This provides a convenient compact installation. 

Description These exchangers are typically a series of stacked helical-coiled tubes connected to manifolds, then inserted into a casing or shell. They have many advantages hke spiral-plate designs, such as avoiding differential expansion problems, acceleration effects of the helical flow increasing the heat transfer coefficient, and compactness of plot area. They are typically selected because of their economical design. 

The partial differential equations used to model the dynamic behavior of physicochemical processes often exhibit complicated, non-recurrent dynamic behavior. Simple simulation is often not capable of correlating and interpreting such results. We present two illustrative cases in which the computation of unstable, saddle-type solutions and their stable and unstable manifolds is critical to the understanding of the system dynamics. Implementation characteristics of algorithms that perform such computations are also discussed. 

The description of fuzzy, local density fragments is facilitated by the use of local coordinate systems, however, some compatibility conditions of such local coordinate systems must be fulfilled, reflecting the mutual relations of the fragments within the complete molecule. Manifold theory, topological manifolds, and in particular, differentiable manifolds [153-158], are the branches of mathematics dealing with the general properties of compatible local coordinate systems. 

Sets of local coordinate systems describing certain local features of complicated objects are often advantageous when compared to a single, global coordinate system. Within a topological framework, the general theory of sets of local coordinate systems is called manifold theory. Often, the local coordinate systems are interrelated, and these relations can be expressed by continuous, and in the case of differentiable manifolds, by differentiable mappings, called homeomorphisms (see Equation (15)), and diffeomorphisms, respectively. 

In differentiable manifolds the local coordinate systems must fulfill some compatibility conditions ensuring that in any overlapping region of two local coordinate systems any additional, differentiable functions expressed in either coordinate system are meaningful and differentiable in the other coordinate system as well. 

If differentiability is also ensured, then one obtains a differentiable manifold. 

More precisely, a Hausdorff space X covered by countable many T-open sets G(1), G(2),. . . , is an K-dimensional differentiable manifold if it satisfies the following conditions ... 

If space X is an H-dimensional differentiable manifold and if 7 is a subset ofX, then 7 is called an m-dimensional submanifold of X if the following additional conditions hold for 7 ... 

The concept of a gauge field and the notion of gauge invariance originated with a premature suggestion by Weyl [42] how to accommodate electromagnetic variables, in addition to the gravitational field, as geometric features of a differential manifold. 

Balancing of manifolded systems is often very difficult. The use of damper within the system was the generally accepted method until fairly recently. The use of dampers has not proven to be effective because they tend to fail for a variety of reasons and are difficult to keep adjusted. More recently, balancing of manifolded systems has been accomplished by use of static pressure differentials. This method has proved to be very effective, but has limitations. 

Let G be a finite group acting on a compact differentiable manifold X. Then there exists the well known formula for the Euler number of the quotient... 

Each of the groups we introduce in this text is a Lie group. We give the formal definition in terms of manifolds however, readers unfamiliar with differential geometry may think of a manifold as analogous to a nicely parametrized surface embedded in R. More to the point for our purposes, a manifold is a set on which differentiability is well defined. Since all the mamfolds we will consider are nicely parameterized, we can define differentiability in terms of the parameters. 

Definition 4.5 A Lie group is a group whose set of elements is a differentiable manifold such that multiplication and inversion are differentiable functions. 

The projective space P(C2) has many names. In mathematical texts it is often called one-dimensional complex projective space, denoted CP (Students of complex differential geometry may recognize that the space PCC ) is onedimensional as a complex manifold loosely speaking, this means that around any point of (C ) there is a neighborhood that looks like an open subset of C, and these neighborhoods overlap in a reasonable way.) In physics the space appears as the state space of a spin-1/2 particle. In computer science, it is known as a qubit (pronounced cue-hit ), for reasons we will explain in Section 10.2. In this text we will use the name qubit because CP has mathematical connotations we wish to avoid. 

Exercise 10.2 (For students of differential geometry) Show that for any natural number n, the set P(C + ) is a real manifold of dimension 2n. 

Definition B.2 Suppose that M and N are differentiable manifolds of the same dimension, and suppose that f M N is a differentiable function. Suppose m e M. Then f is a local diffeomorphism at m if there is a neighborhood M containing m such that /tx invertible and its inverse is differentiable. If f is a local diffeomorphism at each m e M, then f is a local diffeomorphism. 

See Boothby [Bo, II.6] or Bamberg and Sternberg [BaS, p. 237] for a proof of the inverse function theorem on R". The corresponding theorem for manifolds follows by restricting to coordinate neighborhoods of m and f(m). We will use the following theorem about group actions on differentiable manifolds. 

Theorem B.3 Suppose M is a differentiable manifold, G is a compact Lie group and G, M, o) is a group action. Suppose further that... 

Then the quotient space M/ G (defined in Exercise 4.43) is a differentiable manifold, and the natural projection tt M M/ G is a differentiable function. 

Bo] Bootbby, W.M., An Introduction to Differentiable Manifolds and Riemannian Geometry, Second Edition, Academic Press, Inc., Orlando, 1986. 

Wa] Warner, F.W., Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups-, Springer Verlag, New York, 1983. 

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