A linear isomorphism is determined by its action on an ordered basis or "'frame " '.
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If one considers a Riemannian manifold or a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, the Riemannian metric induces a linear isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles . ( See Musical isomorphism ).
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I think one other important thing to consider is that in manifold theory there are important facts about the derivative of a smooth function between smooth manifolds ( namely it is a linear isomorphism between tangent spaces ).
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A 1969 theorem of David Henderson states that every infinite-dimensional, embedded as an open subset of the infinite-dimensional, separable Hilbert space, " H " ( up to linear isomorphism, there is only one such space ).
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Thus parallel transport provides a way of moving tangent vectors along a curve using the affine connection to keep them " pointing in the same direction " in an intuitive sense, and this provides a linear isomorphism between the tangent spaces at the two ends of the curve.
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In finite dimensions, the two notions of dual cone are essentially the same because every finite dimensional linear functional is continuous, and every continuous linear functional in a inner product space induces a linear isomorphism ( nonsingular linear map ) from " V * " to " V ", and this isomorphism will take the dual cone given by the second definition, in " V * ", onto the one given by the first definition; see the Riesz representation theorem.