Tangent cones of sets flattened by a differentiable chart #
A set S that some chart e flattens onto a closed linear subspace L (in the sense of
TauCeti.IsSliceChart) has, at each of its points y, a tangent cone which is a linear
subspace: it is the preimage of L under the derivative of e at y. This identifies Mathlib's
intrinsic tangentConeAt with the tangent space read off any flattening chart, so a condition
stated with tangent cones, such as the transversality of two submanifolds, does not depend on the
charts used to verify it.
Main results #
OpenPartialHomeomorph.isInvertible_fderiv: a chart that is differentiable at a point, with inverse differentiable at the image point, has an invertible derivative there.TauCeti.IsSliceChart.tangentConeAt_eq_preimage: the tangent cone of a set flattened onto a closed subspace is the preimage of that subspace under the derivative of the chart.TauCeti.IsSliceChart.span_tangentConeAt_eq_comap: hence the span of the tangent cone is that preimage, viewed as a subspace, and it has the dimension of the model subspace (TauCeti.IsSliceChart.finrank_span_tangentConeAt).
A chart which is differentiable at a point of its source, and whose inverse is differentiable at the image point, has an invertible derivative there.
A chart which is differentiable at a point of its source, and whose inverse is differentiable at the image point, has a derivative represented by a continuous linear equivalence.
The tangent cone of a flattened set. If the chart e flattens S onto a closed linear
subspace L and has invertible derivative A at a point y of S, then the tangent cone of S
at y is Aโปยน L.
The span of the tangent cone of a set flattened onto a closed subspace L, at a point where
the chart has invertible derivative A, is the subspace Aโปยน L.
The tangent space of a set flattened onto a closed subspace L, at a point where the chart has
invertible derivative, has the dimension of L.