Undergrad Fixing orientation by fixing a frame in a tangent space

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Fixing the orientation of a k-manifold smooth connected S in R^n is shown to be equivalent to fixing a frame in one of its tangent spaces. Different orientations arise from orienting atlases that cannot be consistently mapped to those in other equivalence classes when their domains overlap. The discussion highlights the need to clarify that fixing a frame at a point x_0 in S does not universally determine the orientation of S, particularly since any connected manifold can be embedded in R^n for sufficiently large n. The mention of simply connected manifolds suggests a more specific context for orientation. Overall, the relationship between frames and orientations in manifolds is complex and requires careful consideration of manifold properties.
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I would like to show that fixing the orientation of k-manifold smooth connected ##S## in ##\mathbb {R} ^ n ## is equivalent to fixing a frame for one of its tangent spaces.

What I know is that different orientations correspond to orienting atlases containing maps that cannot be consistent with maps in other orienting atlases of other equivalence classes, when their domains of action overlap.

How could we pass from this fact, to the fact that it is enough to fix a frame anywhere ##x_0 \in S ## to determine the orientation of ## S ##?
 
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