Almost all properties on the differentiability of maps on surfaces are proved by the analogous properties of differentiable maps between open sets of Euclidean spaces. I point out two of them
- A parametrization of a surface is differentiable. Here we are saying that the parametrization $X_U\subset{\mathbb R}^2\rightarrow V\subset S$ is differentiable, where $V$ is an open set of a surface $S$. In order to clarify the notation, we stand for $Y$ the above map, and $X:U\rightarrow {\mathbb R}^3$ the parametrization. In fact, $Y$ is noting the restriction of $X$ into the codomain. Because $Y$ arrives to a surface, $Y$ is differentiable if $i\circ Y: U\rightarrow{\mathbb R}^3$ is smooth. But this map is just $X$, which it is smooth because is the second property of a parametrization.
- The inverse of a parametrization is differentiable. Here we mean $X^{-1}:V\rightarrow U\subset{\mathbb R}^2$ is differentiable. Now $X^{-1}$ is a map whose domain is a surface, in fact, the open set $V$ of $S$, which is indeed a surface. By the definition, we have to prove that $X^{-1}\circ Z$ is smooth for some parametrization of $S$. Here we take $Z=X$. Then $X^{-1}\circ X$ is the identity map on the open set $U$, which is trivially smooth.
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