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Partitioning a smooth manifold into geodesically convex sets
Let $X$ be a connected and compact $d$-dimensional smooth manifold; where $d$ is a positive integer. Does (or rather, when does) there exist a metric $\rho$ on $X$ generating $X$'s topology and a ...
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Cover a set with balls centered at smooth functions (Ascoli theorem)
Assume $M$ to be a compact $n$-dimensional manifold, endowed with a complete metric.
Let us consider the space $C^\infty(M)$ endowed with the standard $C^\infty$ topology, i.e. generated by the ...