Pointwise representation of one-forms by vector-field functionals

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Let consist of real-linear maps from smooth vector fields to smooth functions such that implies . These are exactly evaluations by smooth differential one-forms. Define using any global field with ; the vanishing condition makes it well-defined. Bump-extended local frame vectors make its coefficients smooth. Also , so real linearity and pointwise vanishing automatically give -linearity. The evaluation correspondence is a natural module isomorphism.

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