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is a smooth function (differentiable any number of times). A vector field can be visualized as assigning a vector to individual points within an n-dimensional space.

One standard notation is to write for the unit vectors in the coordinate directions. In these terms, every smooth vector field on an open subset of can be written as

for some smooth functions on . The reason for this notation is that a vector field determines a linear map from the space

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