Continuous ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings #
The geometric-topology roadmap treats geometric knot presentations as smooth embeddings,
and asks that isotopy and ambient isotopy be defined generally before being specialised.
TauCeti.AmbientIsotopic already gives the point-set ambient-isotopy relation for continuous
maps. This file connects that relation to the bundled smooth embeddings of
TauCeti.Geometry.Manifold.SmoothEmbedding.Basic.
The relation here does not assert that the ambient isotopy is smooth in time or in the ambient
variable. It is the continuous ambient-isotopy relation on the underlying maps of two bundled
smooth embeddings, which is the topological relation later smooth-knot and concordance files can
specialise further when they need differentiable isotopies. Because the smooth and topological
ambient-isotopy relations genuinely differ in high dimensions, the name says Continuous: this
is not a smooth ambient isotopy of the embeddings, only continuous ambient isotopy of their
underlying maps.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic: two bundled smooth embeddings are continuously ambient isotopic when their underlying continuous maps are ambient isotopic.TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic.setoid: continuous ambient isotopy as a setoid on bundled smooth embeddings.
The source for the topological ambient-isotopy notion is Burde--Zieschang, Knots, Chapter 1,
Definition 1.2, via the existing TauCeti.Topology.Homotopy.Isotopy.Basic and
TauCeti.Topology.Homotopy.AmbientIsotopic.Basic files.
Two bundled smooth embeddings are continuously ambient isotopic when their underlying continuous maps are ambient isotopic. This is the continuous topological relation, not a smooth ambient isotopy.
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Continuous ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings is witnessed by an ambient isotopy whose final homeomorphism postcomposes the first underlying continuous map to the second.
An ambient isotopy whose final map carries f to g witnesses continuous ambient isotopy of
the two bundled smooth embeddings.
A symmetric form of SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic.of_ambientIsotopy, useful when
the endpoint equation is oriented as g = Φ.final ∘ f.
Continuous ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings is reflexive.
Continuous ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings is symmetric.
Continuous ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings is transitive.
Continuously ambient isotopic bundled smooth embeddings have isotopic underlying continuous maps.
Continuous ambient isotopy is an equivalence relation on bundled smooth embeddings.
The continuous-ambient-isotopy equivalence relation on bundled smooth embeddings, packaged as
a Setoid.
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- TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic.setoid I J n M N = { r := TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic, iseqv := ⋯ }