Normal spaces of smooth embeddings #
At a point of a smoothly embedded submanifold, the normal space is the ambient tangent space modulo the image of the differential of the embedding. This quotient is intrinsic: it needs no metric or choice of complementary subspace. It is the fibrewise linear object from which a normal bundle, and eventually a tubular neighbourhood, must be constructed.
The differential is injective for an immersion of positive smoothness. Consequently the normal space has the expected codimension in finite dimensions. The quotient map also characterizes exactly which ambient tangent vectors represent zero normal vectors.
For the tubular-neighbourhood application of normal bundles, see M. Hirsch, Differential Topology, Theorem 6.3.
The tangent subspace of the ambient manifold determined by a positive-regularity embedding
at x. It is the range of the differential, regarded as a linear map of tangent spaces.
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An ambient tangent vector is tangent to the embedding precisely when it is a differential image.
The normal space of a smooth embedding at x: ambient tangent vectors modulo vectors
tangent to the embedded submanifold.
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The tangent range is closed because the differential of an immersion has a continuous left inverse.
A normal space into a finite-dimensional model is finite-dimensional.
Project an ambient tangent vector to its normal class.
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The normal-class map is the linear quotient map by the tangent range.
The kernel of the normal-class map is exactly the tangent range.
The continuous quotient map from ambient tangent vectors to normal classes.
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The continuous normal-class map gives the normal space its quotient topology.
The continuous normal-class map is an open quotient map.
The continuous normal-class map has normalClass as its underlying linear map.
The continuous normal-class map agrees pointwise with the linear normal-class map.
A continuous linear map vanishing on tangent vectors descends continuously to normal classes.
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The continuous quotient lift recovers the original map after composition with the continuous normal-class map.
Every normal vector has an ambient tangent representative.
An ambient tangent equivalence carrying one embedding's tangent range onto the other's induces an equivalence of their intrinsic normal spaces.
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The normal-space equivalence induced by an ambient tangent equivalence applies it to representatives.
An ambient tangent vector has zero normal class precisely when it is tangent to the image.
The differential of the embedding has zero normal class.
Two ambient tangent vectors represent the same normal vector exactly when their difference is tangent to the embedded submanifold.
A linear map vanishing on tangent vectors descends to the normal space.
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The underlying linear map of the continuous normal lift is the linear normal lift.
The continuous normal lift agrees pointwise with the linear normal lift.
Composing the quotient lift with the normal-class map recovers the original linear map.
A map out of the normal space is determined by its values on ambient tangent classes.
A continuous linear map out of the normal space is determined by its composition with the continuous normal-class map.
The normal dimension plus the tangent dimension equals the ambient dimension for a finite-dimensional smooth embedding.
The dimension of the normal space is the codimension of the embedded manifold.