Definition

Two charts (U,φ)(U,\varphi) and (V,ψ)(V,\psi) are said to be smoothly compatible if either UV=U \cap V = \emptyset or transition map ψφ1\psi \circ \varphi^{-1} is a diffeomorphism.


References

  1. J. M. Lee, Introduction to smooth manifolds, Second edition. in Graduate texts in mathematics, no. 218. New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London: Springer, 2013, p. 12.