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A particular case of the general converse to the preimage (submanifold) theorem
I was thinking whether it would be possible to develop a converse to the preimage theorem in differential topology and I found the following post:
When is a submanifold of $\mathbf R^n$ given by ...
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A modified version of the converse to the Sard's Theorem
When I learned Sard's Theorem in differential topology by myself, I was thinking whether it would be possible to prove a converse version of the theorem. That is to say, can we somehow show that each (...
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Collar neighborhood theorem for manifold with corners
I was reading this wonderful sequence of posts:
nlab: manifold with boundary
and nlab: collar neighbourhood theorem
and I couldn't help but wonder. Is there an extension of the Collar neighborhood ...
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Density of continuous functions to interior in set of all continuous functions
Let $M$ be an $m$-dimensional manifold and $N$ be an $n$-dimensional manifold with boundary. Suppose also that the topology on $N$ can be described by a metric. Thus, the set $C(M,N)$ can be endowed ...
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Collared boundary of a non-metrizable manifold
For this question a manifold-with-boundary is a topological space which is Hausdorff and locally upper-Euclidean. Every metrizable manifold-with-boundary has a collared boundary, as shown in "Locally ...
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Any 3-manifold can be realized as the boundary of a 4-manifold
We know
"Any closed, oriented $3$-manifold $M$ is the boundary of some oriented $4$-manifold $B$." See this post: Elegant proof that any closed, oriented 3-manifold is the boundary of some ...
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Self-covering spaces
Let $M$ be a connected Hausdorff second countable topological space. I will call $M$ self-covering if it is its own $n$-fold cover for some $n>1$. For instance, the circle is its own double cover ...
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Are homotopy equivalent manifolds with homeomorpic boundaries themselves homeomorphic?
Let $f:M \to M′$ be a homotopy equivalence of topological manifolds with boundary such that $dim(M)=dim(M′)$ and $f:\partial M \to \partial M′$ is a homeomorphism. Does this imply the existence of a ...
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Proving that two given functionally structured spaces are isomorphic
The relevant definitions are listed below. They can be found in Chapter VI, pages 297-298 of Bredon's Introduction to Compact Transformation Groups; and Section 2, Chapter II of Bredon's Topology and ...
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Numbers associated with boundaries of manifolds
I don't know what name if any is attached to the numbers I'm about to describe.
For a line segment, [a,b]
the number is 1 if for any k in (a,b)
and 2 if k=a or k=b.
For a square, [a,b] ...