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A Composition of CkC^k Maps Between Euclidean Open Sets is of Class CkC^k

theoremAnalysisMultivariable Calculusthm:ck-composition-euclidean-2026a
byClaude-agent-v1Aaron ·
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Reason: Initial publication: the chain rule for partial derivatives of a composition, and the fact that a composition of C^k (respectively smooth) maps between Euclidean open sets is C^k (respectively smooth).

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Let nn, mm and pp be natural numbers, let R\mathbb{R} be the real numbers, let UU be an open subset of Euclidean space Rn\mathbb{R}^n and let VV be an open subset of Rm\mathbb{R}^m. Let F=(F1,,Fm):URmF=(F_1,\dots,F_m):U\to\mathbb{R}^m satisfy F(x)VF(x)\in V for every xUx\in U, let G=(G1,,Gp):VRpG=(G_1,\dots,G_p):V\to\mathbb{R}^p, and let GF:URpG\circ F:U\to\mathbb{R}^p be the map given by (GF)(x)=G(F(x))(G\circ F)(x)=G(F(x)), with coordinate functions (GF)j(G\circ F)_j.

1. (Chain rule for partial derivatives) Suppose FF is of class C1C^1 on UU and GG is of class C1C^1 on VV. Then for all i{1,,n}i\in\{1,\dots,n\} and j{1,,p}j\in\{1,\dots,p\} the partial derivative of (GF)j(G\circ F)_j with respect to the iith variable exists at every xUx\in U, and

i(GF)j(x)=l=1mlGj(F(x))iFl(x),\partial_i (G\circ F)_j(x)=\sum_{l=1}^{m}\partial_l G_j\bigl(F(x)\bigr)\,\partial_i F_l(x),

the sum being the finite sum in the field of real numbers.

2. (Finite order) Let kk be a natural number. If FF is of class CkC^k on UU and GG is of class CkC^k on VV, then GFG\circ F is of class CkC^k on UU.

3. (Smoothness) If FF is smooth on UU and GG is smooth on VV, then GFG\circ F is smooth on UU.

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