Whitney embedding theorem #
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In this file we prove a version of the Whitney embedding theorem: for any compact real manifold M
,
for sufficiently large n
there exists a smooth embedding M → ℝ^n
.
TODO #
- Prove the weak Whitney embedding theorem: any
σ
-compact smoothm
-dimensional manifold can be embedded intoℝ^(2m+1)
. This requires a version of Sard's theorem: for a locally Lipschitz continuous mapf : ℝ^m → ℝ^n
,m < n
, the range has Hausdorff dimension at mostm
, hence it has measure zero.
Tags #
partition of unity, smooth bump function, whitney theorem
Whitney embedding theorem #
In this section we prove a version of the Whitney embedding theorem: for any compact real manifold
M
, for sufficiently large n
there exists a smooth embedding M → ℝ^n
.
Smooth embedding of M
into (E × ℝ) ^ ι
.
Baby version of the Whitney weak embedding theorem: if M
admits a finite covering by
supports of bump functions, then for some n
it can be immersed into the n
-dimensional
Euclidean space.
Baby version of the Whitney weak embedding theorem: if M
admits a finite covering by
supports of bump functions, then for some n
it can be embedded into the n
-dimensional
Euclidean space.