Questions tagged [smooth-manifolds]

For questions about smooth manifolds, a topological manifold with a maximal smooth atlas.

A topological manifold of dimension $n$ is a Hausdorff, second countable topological space $X$ such that each $x \in X$ has a neighbourhood homeomorphic to an open subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$.

A smooth atlas on a topological manifold $X$ is a collection of pairs $\left\lbrace(U_{\alpha}, \varphi_{\alpha})\right\rbrace_{\alpha\in A}$ where $U_{\alpha}$ is an open subset of $X$ and $\varphi_{\alpha} : U_{\alpha} \to \varphi_{\alpha}(U_{\alpha}) \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is a homeomorphism such that $\bigcup\limits_{\alpha\in A}U_{\alpha} = X$.

A topological manifold with a maximal smooth atlas is called a smooth manifold.

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Is this map smooth?

Let $M$ and $N$ be smooth manifolds and $$f:M\times N\to \mathbb{R}$$ a map. Suppose that the maps $$M\to\mathbb{R},\quad p\mapsto f(p,q_0)$$ $$N\to\mathbb{R},\quad q\mapsto f(p_0,q)$$ are smooth for all $(p_0,q_0)\in M\times N$. Is $f$…
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Union of submanifolds

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold (without boundary) and $A,B$ too submanifolds of $M$ such that $$A\cap B=\emptyset\quad\text{and}\quad\dim A=\dim B.$$ Is $A\cup B$ a submanifold of $M$? The assumption that $\dim A=\dim B$ is really necessary. For…
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Proper action on $M$ induces proper action on $TM$?

Let $G$ be a Lie group acting smoothly and properly on a smooth manifold $M$. Denote the action by $$\psi:G\times M\longrightarrow M,\quad \psi(g,p)=\psi_g(p).$$ Then, there is a natural action of $G$ on the tangent bundle of $M$ given by $$G\times…
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regular submanifold

I have some problem to understand this . if this means of regular submanifold is a subset $S$ of a manifold $N$ of dimension $n$is regular submanifold of dimension $k$ if for every $p\in S$ there is a coordinate nieghborhood…
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Oriented Hypersurface admits unique unit normal vector field

This question is the converse of this question and is taken from Lee's Smooth Manifolds, problem 15.7. Namely: Suppose $M$ is an oriented Riemannian manifold and $S\subset M$ is an oriented smooth hypersurface. Show that there is a unique smooth…
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$C^1$ versus smooth submanifolds

Is the graph of $f(x)=|x|\,x$ (or any $C^1$ function that is not $C^\infty)$ a smooth embedded submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^2$ with its standard differential structure? I apologize if this is too elementary, but I got somehow confused. I understand…
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Problem to proof that $SO(3)$ is a differentiable manifold

I and my friend were trying to proof that $SO(3)$ is a Lie Group, and in particular a differentiable manifold. His attempt was to consider a closed ball in $\mathbb{R}^3$, centered in origin and whose radius is $\pi$. Then for any point $x$ in this…
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Is $M$ orientable?

Show that $$M = \lbrace e^{it} X \in \mathbb{R}^{m+1} \times \mathbb{R}^{m+1}: t \in \mathbb{R}, \ X \in S^m \subset \mathbb{R}^{m+1} \rbrace$$ is a compact regular submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^{2m+2}.$ Is $M$ orientable? My thoughts: let $f: S^1…
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If the image of an open set by a smooth map f is an embedded submanifold, is f a local embedding

My question is about the use of the "local slice criterion" (as presented in Lee's "Introduction to Smooth Manifolds") to obtain an embedded submanifold from some subset $S$ of a manifold and the relationship between an embedded submanifold and a…
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Proving the image of a function of rank one is a curve using constant rank theorem

My question is based on this one and is prompted by my attempt to understand the constant rank theorem. Specifically, suppose I have a smooth map $F : M \rightarrow R^k$ where $M \subset R^n$ is an $m$-dimensional manifold and $F$ has rank one at…
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Prove that the union is not a smooth manifold.

Prove that the union $\Gamma_1 \cup \Gamma_2 \cup \ldots \cup \Gamma_n \cup \ldots$ of sequence of sets defined by \begin{equation*} \Gamma_a=\left\{\left(a \mathrm{e}^{\varphi} \cos \varphi, a \mathrm{e}^{\varphi} \sin \varphi\right) \in…
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A confusion of Lee's theorem: local diffeomorphism automatically admits smooth local section and is thus smooth submersion?

Let $M$ and $N$ be smooth manifolds and $\pi:M\rightarrow N$ be a smooth map. A local section of $\pi$ is a a smooth map $\sigma:U\rightarrow M$ defined on some open subset $U\subseteq N$ such that $\pi\circ\sigma=id_U$. Local section theorem says…
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Global section and Smooth vector fields

For a given smooth bundle, a global section may or may not be available. As I understood smooth vector field (not a local smooth vector field) is a global section of the tangent bundle. How do we know such a global section exists for a given tangent…
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Can a coordinate of a hypersurface be extended to a coordinate of the whole manifold?

The manifold discussed here is a smooth manifold equipped with a metric tensor of dimension n, denoted by (M,g). Here I am considering choosing a coordinate ($\psi$,U) on an embedded manifold of codimension 1, i.e. the hypersurface, along with its…
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Does defining cotangent space as quotient space work on $C^k$ manifold

I saw three different definition of tangent space on wikipedia#tangent-space: via equivlent class of tangent curves: It works for both $C^k$ manifolds and smooth manifolds via derivations: It only works for smooth manifolds via cotangent space I…
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