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<p>of .</p>

<p>Now suppose that  is a <a href="page.php?w=section_%28fiber_bundle%29">section</a> of  (a <a href="page.php?w=differential_form">1-form</a> on ), and precompose  with  to obtain a <a href="page.php?w=pullback_bundle">pullback section</a> of . Applying the above bundle map (pointwise) to this section yields the <b>pullback</b> of  by , which is the 1-form  on  defined by</p>

<p>for  in  and  in .</p>

<p><big>Pullback of (covariant) tensor fields</big></p>
<p>The construction of the previous section generalizes immediately to <a href="page.php?w=tensor">tensor bundle</a>s</p><p>
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