Quotient manifolds of free properly discontinuous actions #
Mathlib equips the orbit space of a free, properly discontinuous action on a charted space with
charts pushed forward along the orbit projection (MulAction.instChartedSpaceQuotient). This file
proves that for an action by C^n maps on a C^n manifold these charts form a C^n manifold,
and that the orbit projection is a C^n local diffeomorphism.
The argument is local and applies to any surjective local homeomorphism f : M โ M' with the
pushed-forward charts IsLocalHomeomorph.chartedSpaceOfRightInverse. The only input is that
f has C^n local deck transformations: whenever f z = f w, some map that is C^n at z
sends z to w and commutes with f near z. Then every composite of a local inverse of f
with f is locally such a map, so the transition maps of the pushed-forward atlas are C^n
maps of M read in charts of M. For an orbit projection the deck transformations are the
group elements themselves.
A properly discontinuous action that is not free is free on its free locus TauCeti.freeLocus,
an open invariant subset. The free locus inherits the charts of the ambient manifold and the
C^n action, so the results above make its orbit space a C^n manifold by instance search.
Main results #
IsLocalHomeomorph.isManifold_chartedSpaceOfRightInverse,IsLocalHomeomorph.contMDiff_chartedSpaceOfRightInverse,IsLocalHomeomorph.isLocalDiffeomorph_chartedSpaceOfRightInverse: the pushed-forward charts of a local homeomorphism withC^nlocal deck transformations form aC^nmanifold, for which the map is aC^nlocal diffeomorphism.TauCeti.instIsManifoldQuotient: the orbit space of a free, properly discontinuous action byC^nmaps on aC^nmanifold is aC^nmanifold.TauCeti.isLocalDiffeomorph_quotientMk: the orbit projection is aC^nlocal diffeomorphism.TauCeti.freeLocus.instChartedSpace,TauCeti.freeLocus.instIsManifoldandTauCeti.freeLocus.instContMDiffConstSMul: the free locus of a properly discontinuous action is an open submanifold on which the group acts byC^nmaps.
References #
- John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 218, Springer, 2013, Chapter 21 (quotients by discrete group actions).
The charts that a local homeomorphism f with C^n local deck transformations pushes forward
from a C^n manifold form a C^n manifold.
A local homeomorphism with C^n local deck transformations is C^n for the charts it pushes
forward from a C^n manifold.
A local homeomorphism with C^n local deck transformations is a C^n local diffeomorphism
for the charts it pushes forward from a C^n manifold.
The orbit space of a free, properly discontinuous action by C^n maps on a C^n manifold is a
C^n manifold, for the charts pushed forward along the orbit projection.
The orbit projection of a free, properly discontinuous action by C^n maps on a C^n manifold
is a C^n local diffeomorphism.
The free locus #
The free locus of a properly discontinuous action is open, so it inherits the charts of the ambient charted space.
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The free locus of a properly discontinuous action on a C^n manifold is a C^n manifold.
An action by C^n maps restricts to an action by C^n maps on the free locus.