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Local coordinates $x^{\mu }$ induce the coordinate-basis tangent vectors ${\partial }_{\mu }=\partial /\partial x^{\mu }$. Under a coordinate change they transform by the chain rule.

At $p$ on a smooth manifold, a derivation at that point is a real-linear map $v:C_p^{\infty }(M)\to \mathbb{R}$ on germs of smooth functions with $v(fh)=f(p)v(h)+h(p)v(f)$. It defines a tangent vector. The local factorization $f-f(p)={\sum }_i(x^i-x^i(p))f_i$ gives $v(f)={\sum }_{i}v(x^i){\partial }_{i}f(p)$, so the coordinate derivations form a basis of the tangent space.

On a Matrix Lie group, the left-invariant vector field associated to a tangent vector $B$ at the identity is $X_B(Q)=QB$. Its ambient derivative is $D{X}_B(Q)[H]=HB$. Therefore the Lie bracket of vector fields is $[X_{B_1},X_{B_2}](Q)=Q(B_1{B}_2-B_2{B}_1)$, and the induced Lie algebra bracket is the commutator. This fixes the sign for left invariance; right-invariant fields induce the opposite sign when evaluated with the same matrix identification.

For the Riemannian metric $d{r}^2+f(r{)}^{2}d{\varphi }^2$, where $f>0$ and $\varphi$ has period $2\pi$, parallel transport around $r=r_0$ acts on the orthonormal basis components of a tangent vector by a rotation through $-2\pi f^{\prime }(r_0)$. Indeed, those components obey $u^{\prime }=f^{\prime }(r_0)v$ and $v^{\prime }=-f^{\prime }(r_0)u$ as functions of $\varphi$. Thus all tangent vectors return to themselves exactly when $f^{\prime }(r_0)\in \mathbb{Z}$. The integer criterion concerns holonomy and is stronger than local flatness.

An isometric immersion is an immersion $f:M\to N$ between Riemannian manifolds whose derivative preserves the inner products of tangent vectors; equivalently, $f^{\ast }{g}_N=g_M$. Its derivative is injective and the target may have larger dimension. A local isometry additionally requires a local diffeomorphism, so its tangent maps are linear isomorphisms. For example, a sphere with its induced Riemannian metric is isometrically immersed in Euclidean space, although its positive intrinsic sectional curvature differs from that of the ambient space.

A normal vector is orthogonal to every tangent vector in the tangent space.