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Publications and source records attributed to M. Papatriantafillou.
We consider differentiable maps in the setting of Abstract Differential Geometry and we study the conditions that ensure the uniqueness of differentials in this setting. In particular, we prove that smooth maps between smooth manifolds admit a unique differential, coinciding with the usual one. Thus smooth manifolds form a full subcategory of the category of differential triads, a result with physical implications.
Given a sheaf of unital commutative and associative algebras A, first we construct the k-th Grassmann sheaf G_A(k,n) of A^n whose sections induce vector subsheaves of A^n of rank k. Next we show that every vector sheaf over a paracompact space is a subsheaf of A^{\infty}. Finally, applying the preceding results to the universal Grassmann sheaf G_A(n), we prove that vector sheaves of rank n over a paracompact space are classified by the global sections of G_A(n).