topological manifold
The definition given in the manifold article is in fact the definition of topological manifold. If we change it to allow only smooth (differentiable
) transition (maximal rank) functions
, then we speak of a smooth manifold.Or if we take real analytic function
as the transition ones we get -analytic manifolds.
One must emphasize that the invariant number appearing in the definition there is the dimension of the manifold which is also the dimension of the tangent space at a point, in a smooth manifold.