  In general terms, Gelfand duality refers to a correspondence between a
geometric, topological, or analytical category, and an algebraic category. For
example, in smooth differential geometry, Gelfand duality refers to the
topological embedding of a smooth manifold in the topological dual of its
algebra of smooth functions. This is generalised here in two directions. First,
the topological embeddings for manifolds are generalised to the cases of real
analytic and Stein manifolds, using a unified cohomological argument. Second,
this type of duality is extended to vector bundles, affine bundles, and jet
bundles by using suitable classes of functions, the topological duals in which
the embeddings take their values.
