Properties of Differentials, Smooth Manifolds.

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The discussion centers on the linearity of the differential of a smooth map between smooth manifolds, specifically the proposition from John M. Lee's "Introduction to Smooth Manifolds." It establishes that for smooth manifolds M, N, and P, and smooth maps F: M → N and G: N → P, the differential TpF: TpM → TF(p) is indeed linear. This is confirmed by the property that the image of a linear combination of vectors in TpM under TpF results in a corresponding linear combination in TF(p).

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I'm reading the second edition of John M. Lee's Introduction to Smooth Manifolds and he has a proposition that I'd like to understand better

Let M, N, and P be smooth manifolds with or without boundary, let F:M→N and G:N→P be smooth maps and let p\inM

Proposition: TpF : TpM → TF(p) is linear

ok I know that v\inTpM means that

v:C∞(M)→ℝ is a derivation and that TpM is a vector space.

Does this mean that the image of (av+bw) under TpF where v,w \in TpM and a,b \in ℝ

is aTpF(v) + bTpF(w) which means TpF is linear?
 
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