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A Riemannian metric gives inverse vector bundle isomorphismsIn coordinates they have matrices $g_{ij}$ and $g^{ij}$. Every smooth manifold admits a Riemannian metric by a partition of unity, so its tangent and cotangent bundles are isomorphic as real smooth vector bundles. This isomorphism depends on the metric, not merely on the manifold.

A vector bundle morphism over $M$ is a smooth map $F:E\to E^{\prime }$ with ${\pi }^{\prime }\circ F=\pi$ whose restriction $E_p\to E_p^{\prime }$ is linear for every $p$. A vector bundle isomorphism is such a map with a smooth bundle-morphism inverse. Equivalently, a fiberwise bijective smooth bundle morphism is an isomorphism: in local vector bundle trivializations it is multiplication by an invertible smooth matrix, and its inverse matrix is smooth.

For a diffeomorphism $f:N\to M$, defineThe derivative $d{f}_p$ is a linear isomorphism by the chain rule, since $d(f^{-1}{)}_{f(p)}\circ d{f}_p=\mathrm{id}$. In manifold charts, $F$ is represented by the smooth Jacobian matrix of $f$, so it is a smooth bundle morphism. Its inverse iswhich is also smooth and fiberwise linear. ConsequentlyThis identifies the bundles over the same base $N$; the tangent map by itself is a map from $TN$ to $TM$ covering $f$.

Under the standard smooth manifold hypotheses, the first answer is yes, although the isomorphism requires a choice. A partition of unity combines Euclidean inner products in manifold charts to produce a Riemannian metric $g$. Nonnegative local weights summing to one preserve positivity, and local finiteness preserves smoothness. The musical isomorphism isIt is smooth and fiberwise invertible, with inverse having local matrix $(g_{ij}{)}^{-1}$. It is therefore a vector bundle isomorphism. There is no preferred such map before a metric or equivalent additional structure is chosen.

The second answer is no. On $S^1=\mathbb{R}/2\pi \mathbb{Z}$, compare the trivial vector bundle $S^1\times \mathbb{R}$ with the Möbius line bundleBoth have rank one. A continuous section of a vector bundle of $L$ is represented on $[0,2\pi ]$ by a continuous function $s$ satisfying $s(2\pi )=-s(0)$. If it were nowhere zero, the intermediate value theorem would prevent its endpoint signs from being opposite. Thus $L$ has no nowhere-zero section. The trivial bundle has the section $1$, and a bundle isomorphism would carry that section to a nowhere-zero section of $L$, a contradiction. Hence