The boundary of a manifold with boundary is a manifold #
Mathlib carries the boundary I.boundary M of a manifold with boundary only as a set: there is
no manifold structure on it, so nothing can be glued along it. This file supplies that structure in
the basic Euclidean half-space case: M is a C^k manifold, k โ 0, modeled on the (n + 1)-
dimensional Euclidean half-space ๐กโ (n + 1), and its boundary becomes a boundaryless C^k
manifold modeled on EuclideanSpace โ (Fin n), one dimension lower, whose inclusion into M is a
C^k closed embedding.
The boundary atlas consists of charts induced by the preferred ambient charts. Each preferred ambient chart carries a boundary point to a point of the half-space whose zeroth coordinate vanishes; deleting that coordinate turns it into a preferred chart of the boundary. Two facts make this work, and they are the content of the file.
- The boundary is visible in every chart. Mathlib defines a boundary point through the chart
at that point, and detecting it in another chart of the atlas is
ModelWithCornerschart-independence, which forC^1manifolds is Mathlib'sModelWithCorners.isBoundaryPoint_iff_of_mem_atlas. The generic range-based restatement lives inTauCeti.Geometry.Manifold.Boundary.Basic; this file specialises it to the Euclidean half-space equationx โ โM โ (e x) 0 = 0. - The transition maps stay
C^k. A boundary transition map is the ambient transition map conjugated by the linear parametrization of the coordinate hyperplane, andContDiffOncomposes with continuous linear maps, so no new analysis is needed.
The charted-space structure depends only on the ambient C^1 structure and is registered as the
canonical instance. The manifold and embedding results remain valid for every exponent k โ 0.
Boundarylessness then follows directly from
ModelWithCorners.Boundaryless.boundary_eq_empty.
Corners are deliberately out of scope: gluing along a piece of the boundary produces corners, and
the quadrant model modelWithCornersEuclideanQuadrant needs its own boundary analysis. Collar
neighbourhoods, which are what make a gluing smooth rather than merely topological, are the next
step and are not proved here.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.boundaryChartedSpace: the charted-space structure onI.boundary M.
Main results #
TauCeti.ModelWithCorners.mem_boundary_euclideanHalfSpace_iff_of_mem_atlas: boundary points are detected by the vanishing zeroth coordinate in any ambient atlas chart.TauCeti.ModelWithCorners.isInteriorPoint_euclideanHalfSpace_iff_of_mem_maximalAtlas: interior points are detected by the positive zeroth coordinate in any ambient maximal-atlas chart.TauCeti.boundaryChartedSpace_atlas: the boundary atlas is the range of its preferred charts.TauCeti.boundaryChartedSpace_chartAt_sourceand its companions characterize the preferred boundary charts induced by the ambient preferred charts.TauCeti.isManifold_boundary: the boundary is aC^kmanifold overEuclideanSpace โ (Fin n).TauCeti.isImmersion_subtypeVal_boundary,TauCeti.isSmoothEmbedding_subtypeVal_boundary: the inclusion of the boundary is a closedC^ksmooth embedding.
References #
- M. Hirsch, Differential Topology, Springer GTM 33 (1976), Chapter 1 (manifolds with boundary).
- J. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, Springer GTM 218, 2nd ed. (2013), Theorem 1.46 (the
boundary of a smooth
n-manifold with boundary is a smooth(n - 1)-manifold).
A point of a charted space modeled on the d-dimensional Euclidean half-space is an interior
point exactly when any chart of its C^k maximal atlas, k โ 0, around it reads it with positive
zeroth coordinate.
A point of a C^k manifold with boundary modeled on the (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean
half-space lies on the boundary exactly when any chart around it reads it with vanishing zeroth
coordinate.
The canonical charted-space structure on the boundary of a C^1 manifold modeled on a
Euclidean half-space. Its atlas consists of the boundary charts induced by the ambient preferred
charts. The implementation is intentionally opaque; use the characteristic lemmas below to reason
about its atlas and preferred charts.
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The boundary atlas is the range of its preferred charts.
The source of the preferred boundary chart at p is the part of the boundary the ambient
preferred chart at p sees.
The target of the preferred boundary chart at p is the ambient target, pulled back to the
coordinate hyperplane.
The preferred boundary chart at p reads a point through the ambient preferred chart at p
and deletes the zeroth coordinate.
On its target, the inverse of the preferred boundary chart at p is the inverse of the ambient
preferred chart at p, applied to the parametrized point.
The boundary of a C^k manifold with boundary is a C^k manifold of dimension one less:
the transition maps between the boundary charts are C^k.
The inclusion of the boundary into the manifold is a C^k immersion. In the preferred
boundary and ambient charts it is the coordinate inclusion with one-dimensional complement.
The inclusion of the boundary into the manifold is a C^k smooth embedding.