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<p>In <a href="Mathematics" title="Mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>subbundle</b> <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle L}">
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</p><p>In connection with <a href="Foliation" title="Foliation">foliation</a> theory, a subbundle of the <a href="Tangent_bundle" title="Tangent bundle">tangent bundle</a> of a <a href="Smooth_manifold" class="mw-redirect" title="Smooth manifold">smooth manifold</a> may be called a <a href="Distribution_(differential_geometry)" title="Distribution (differential geometry)">distribution</a> (of <a href="Tangent_vector" title="Tangent vector">tangent vectors</a>).
</p><p>If locally, in a neighborhood <span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle N_{x}}">
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<ul><li><a href="Frobenius_theorem_(differential_topology)" title="Frobenius theorem (differential topology)">Frobenius theorem (differential topology)</a> – On finding a maximal set of solutions of a system of first-order homogeneous linear PDEs</li>
<li><a href="Sub-Riemannian_manifold" title="Sub-Riemannian manifold">Sub-Riemannian manifold</a> – Type of generalization of a Riemannian manifold</li></ul>
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</style><div id="Manifolds_(Glossary,_List,_Category)274" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Manifold" title="Manifold">Manifolds</a> (<a href="Glossary_of_differential_geometry_and_topology" title="Glossary of differential geometry and topology">Glossary</a>, <a href="List_of_manifolds" title="List of manifolds">List</a>, Category)</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Basic concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Topological_manifold" title="Topological manifold">Topological manifold</a>
<ul><li><a href="Atlas_(topology)" title="Atlas (topology)">Atlas</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Differentiable_manifold" title="Differentiable manifold">Differentiable/Smooth manifold</a>
<ul><li><a href="Differential_structure" title="Differential structure">Differential structure</a></li>
<li><a href="Smooth_structure" title="Smooth structure">Smooth atlas</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Submanifold" title="Submanifold">Submanifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Riemannian_manifold" title="Riemannian manifold">Riemannian manifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Smoothness" title="Smoothness">Smooth map</a></li>
<li><a href="Submersion_(mathematics)" title="Submersion (mathematics)">Submersion</a></li>
<li><a href="Pushforward_(differential)" title="Pushforward (differential)">Pushforward</a></li>
<li><a href="Tangent_space" title="Tangent space">Tangent space</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_form" title="Differential form">Differential form</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_field" title="Vector field">Vector field</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Main results <span style="font-size: 85%;">(list)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Atiyah%E2%80%93Singer_index_theorem" title="Atiyah–Singer index theorem">Atiyah–Singer index</a></li>
<li><a href="Darboux's_theorem" title="Darboux's theorem">Darboux's</a></li>
<li><a href="De_Rham_cohomology#De_Rham's_theorem" title="De Rham cohomology">De Rham's</a></li>
<li><a href="Frobenius_theorem_(differential_topology)" title="Frobenius theorem (differential topology)">Frobenius</a></li>
<li><a href="Generalized_Stokes_theorem" title="Generalized Stokes theorem">Generalized Stokes</a></li>
<li><a href="Hopf%E2%80%93Rinow_theorem" title="Hopf–Rinow theorem">Hopf–Rinow</a></li>
<li><a href="Noether's_theorem" title="Noether's theorem">Noether's</a></li>
<li><a href="Sard's_theorem" title="Sard's theorem">Sard's</a></li>
<li><a href="Whitney_embedding_theorem" title="Whitney embedding theorem">Whitney embedding</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Smoothness" title="Smoothness">Maps</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Differentiable_curve" title="Differentiable curve">Curve</a></li>
<li><a href="Diffeomorphism" title="Diffeomorphism">Diffeomorphism</a>
<ul><li><a href="Local_diffeomorphism" title="Local diffeomorphism">Local</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Geodesic" title="Geodesic">Geodesic</a></li>
<li><a href="Exponential_map_(Riemannian_geometry)" title="Exponential map (Riemannian geometry)">Exponential map</a>
<ul><li><a href="Exponential_map_(Lie_theory)" title="Exponential map (Lie theory)">in Lie theory</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Foliation" title="Foliation">Foliation</a></li>
<li><a href="Immersion_(mathematics)" title="Immersion (mathematics)">Immersion</a></li>
<li><a href="Integral_curve" title="Integral curve">Integral curve</a></li>
<li><a href="Lie_derivative" title="Lie derivative">Lie derivative</a></li>
<li><a href="Section_(fiber_bundle)" title="Section (fiber bundle)">Section</a></li>
<li><a href="Submersion_(mathematics)" title="Submersion (mathematics)">Submersion</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Types of<br>manifolds</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Closed_manifold" title="Closed manifold">Closed</a></li>
<li><a href="Collapsing_manifold" title="Collapsing manifold">Collapsing</a></li>
<li><a href="Complete_manifold" title="Complete manifold">Complete</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Almost_complex_manifold" title="Almost complex manifold">Almost</a>) <a href="Complex_manifold" title="Complex manifold">Complex</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Almost-contact_manifold" title="Almost-contact manifold">Almost</a>) <a href="Contact_manifold" class="mw-redirect" title="Contact manifold">Contact</a></li>
<li><a href="Fibered_manifold" title="Fibered manifold">Fibered</a></li>
<li><a href="Finsler_manifold" title="Finsler manifold">Finsler</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Almost_flat_manifold" title="Almost flat manifold">Almost</a>) <a href="Flat_manifold" title="Flat manifold">Flat</a></li>
<li><a href="G-structure_on_a_manifold" title="G-structure on a manifold">G-structure</a></li>
<li><a href="Hadamard_manifold" title="Hadamard manifold">Hadamard</a></li>
<li><a href="Hermitian_manifold" title="Hermitian manifold">Hermitian</a></li>
<li><a href="Hyperbolic_manifold" title="Hyperbolic manifold">Hyperbolic</a></li>
<li><a href="K%C3%A4hler_manifold" title="Kähler manifold">Kähler</a></li>
<li><a href="Kenmotsu_manifold" title="Kenmotsu manifold">Kenmotsu</a></li>
<li><a href="Lie_group" title="Lie group">Lie group</a>
<ul><li><a href="Lie_group%E2%80%93Lie_algebra_correspondence" title="Lie group–Lie algebra correspondence">Lie algebra</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Manifold_with_boundary" class="mw-redirect" title="Manifold with boundary">Manifold with boundary</a></li>
<li><a href="Nilmanifold" title="Nilmanifold">Nilmanifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Orientability" title="Orientability">Oriented</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallelizable_manifold" title="Parallelizable manifold">Parallelizable</a></li>
<li><a href="Poisson_manifold" title="Poisson manifold">Poisson</a></li>
<li><a href="Prime_manifold" title="Prime manifold">Prime</a></li>
<li><a href="Quaternionic_manifold" title="Quaternionic manifold">Quaternionic</a></li>
<li><a href="Hypercomplex_manifold" title="Hypercomplex manifold">Hypercomplex</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Pseudo-Riemannian_manifold" title="Pseudo-Riemannian manifold">Pseudo-</a>, <a href="Sub-Riemannian_manifold" title="Sub-Riemannian manifold">Sub-</a>) <a href="Riemannian_manifold" title="Riemannian manifold">Riemannian</a></li>
<li><a href="Rizza_manifold" title="Rizza manifold">Rizza</a></li>
<li><a href="Stein_manifold" title="Stein manifold">Stein</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Almost_symplectic_manifold" title="Almost symplectic manifold">Almost</a>) <a href="Symplectic_manifold" title="Symplectic manifold">Symplectic</a></li>
<li><a href="Tame_manifold" title="Tame manifold">Tame</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Tensor" title="Tensor">Tensors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Vectors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Distribution_(differential_geometry)" title="Distribution (differential geometry)">Distribution</a></li>
<li><a href="Lie_bracket_of_vector_fields" title="Lie bracket of vector fields">Lie bracket</a></li>
<li><a href="Pushforward_(differential)" title="Pushforward (differential)">Pushforward</a></li>
<li><a href="Tangent_space" title="Tangent space">Tangent space</a>
<ul><li><a href="Tangent_bundle" title="Tangent bundle">bundle</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Torsion_tensor" title="Torsion tensor">Torsion</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_field" title="Vector field">Vector field</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_flow" title="Vector flow">Vector flow</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Covectors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Closed_and_exact_differential_forms" title="Closed and exact differential forms">Closed/Exact</a></li>
<li><a href="Covariant_derivative" title="Covariant derivative">Covariant derivative</a></li>
<li><a href="Cotangent_space" title="Cotangent space">Cotangent space</a>
<ul><li><a href="Cotangent_bundle" title="Cotangent bundle">bundle</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="De_Rham_cohomology" title="De Rham cohomology">De Rham cohomology</a></li>
<li><a href="Differential_form" title="Differential form">Differential form</a>
<ul><li><a href="Vector-valued_differential_form" title="Vector-valued differential form">Vector-valued</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Exterior_derivative" title="Exterior derivative">Exterior derivative</a></li>
<li><a href="Interior_product" title="Interior product">Interior product</a></li>
<li><a href="Pullback_(differential_geometry)" title="Pullback (differential geometry)">Pullback</a></li>
<li><a href="Ricci_curvature" title="Ricci curvature">Ricci curvature</a>
<ul><li><a href="Ricci_flow" title="Ricci flow">flow</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Riemann_curvature_tensor" title="Riemann curvature tensor">Riemann curvature tensor</a></li>
<li><a href="Tensor_field" title="Tensor field">Tensor field</a>
<ul><li><a href="Tensor_density" title="Tensor density">density</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Volume_form" title="Volume form">Volume form</a></li>
<li><a href="Wedge_product" class="mw-redirect" title="Wedge product">Wedge product</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Fiber_bundle" title="Fiber bundle">Bundles</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Adjoint_bundle" title="Adjoint bundle">Adjoint</a></li>
<li><a href="Affine_bundle" title="Affine bundle">Affine</a></li>
<li><a href="Associated_bundle" title="Associated bundle">Associated</a></li>
<li><a href="Cotangent_bundle" title="Cotangent bundle">Cotangent</a></li>
<li><a href="Dual_bundle" title="Dual bundle">Dual</a></li>
<li><a href="Fiber_bundle" title="Fiber bundle">Fiber</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Cofibration" title="Cofibration">Co-</a>) <a href="Fibration" title="Fibration">Fibration</a></li>
<li><a href="Jet_bundle" title="Jet bundle">Jet</a></li>
<li><a href="Lie_algebra_bundle" title="Lie algebra bundle">Lie algebra</a></li>
<li>(<a href="Stable_normal_bundle" title="Stable normal bundle">Stable</a>) <a href="Normal_bundle" title="Normal bundle">Normal</a></li>
<li><a href="Principal_bundle" title="Principal bundle">Principal</a></li>
<li><a href="Spinor_bundle" title="Spinor bundle">Spinor</a></li>
<li><a href="Tangent_bundle" title="Tangent bundle">Tangent</a></li>
<li><a href="Tensor_bundle" title="Tensor bundle">Tensor</a></li>
<li><a href="Vector_bundle" title="Vector bundle">Vector</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Connection_(mathematics)" title="Connection (mathematics)">Connections</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Affine_connection" title="Affine connection">Affine</a></li>
<li><a href="Cartan_connection" title="Cartan connection">Cartan</a></li>
<li><a href="Ehresmann_connection" title="Ehresmann connection">Ehresmann</a></li>
<li><a href="Connection_form" title="Connection form">Form</a></li>
<li><a href="Connection_(fibred_manifold)" title="Connection (fibred manifold)">Generalized</a></li>
<li><a href="Koszul_connection" class="mw-redirect" title="Koszul connection">Koszul</a></li>
<li><a href="Levi-Civita_connection" title="Levi-Civita connection">Levi-Civita</a></li>
<li><a href="Connection_(principal_bundle)" title="Connection (principal bundle)">Principal</a></li>
<li><a href="Connection_(vector_bundle)" title="Connection (vector bundle)">Vector</a></li>
<li><a href="Parallel_transport" title="Parallel transport">Parallel transport</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Classification_of_manifolds" title="Classification of manifolds">Classification of manifolds</a></li>
<li><a href="Gauge_theory_(mathematics)" title="Gauge theory (mathematics)">Gauge theory</a></li>
<li><a href="History_of_manifolds_and_varieties" title="History of manifolds and varieties">History</a></li>
<li><a href="Morse_theory" title="Morse theory">Morse theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Moving_frame" title="Moving frame">Moving frame</a></li>
<li><a href="Singularity_theory" title="Singularity theory">Singularity theory</a></li></ul>
</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Generalizations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Banach_manifold" title="Banach manifold">Banach manifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Diffeology" title="Diffeology">Diffeology</a></li>
<li><a href="Diffiety" title="Diffiety">Diffiety</a></li>
<li><a href="Fr%C3%A9chet_manifold" title="Fréchet manifold">Fréchet manifold</a></li>
<li><a href="K-theory" title="K-theory">K-theory</a></li>
<li><a href="Orbifold" title="Orbifold">Orbifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Secondary_calculus_and_cohomological_physics" title="Secondary calculus and cohomological physics">Secondary calculus</a>
<ul><li><a href="Differential_calculus_over_commutative_algebras" title="Differential calculus over commutative algebras">over commutative algebras</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="Sheaf_(mathematics)" title="Sheaf (mathematics)">Sheaf</a></li>
<li><a href="Stratifold" title="Stratifold">Stratifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Supermanifold" title="Supermanifold">Supermanifold</a></li>
<li><a href="Stratified_space" title="Stratified space">Stratified space</a></li></ul>
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