Analytic manifold
In mathematics, an analytic manifold, also known as a formula_1 manifold, is a differentiable manifold with analytic transition maps. The term usually refers to real analytic manifolds, although complex manifolds are also analytic. In algebraic geometry, analytic spaces are a generalization of analytic manifolds such that singularities are permitted. For formula_2, the space of analytic functions, formula_3, consists of infinitely differentiable functions formula_4, such that the Taylor series formula_5 converges to formula_6 in a neighborhood of formula_7, for all formula_8. The requirement that the transition maps be analytic is significantly more restrictive than that they be infinitely differentiable ; the analytic manifolds are a proper subset of the smooth, i.e. formula_9, manifolds. There are many similarities between the theory of analytic and smooth manifolds, but a critical difference is that analytic manifolds do not admit analytic partitions of unity, whereas smooth partitions of unity are an essential tool in the study of smooth manifolds. A fuller description of the definitions and general theory can be found at differentiable manifolds, for the real case, and at complex manifolds, for the complex case.