Fixed complementary coordinates for intrinsic normal spaces #
Near a point of a smooth embedding, the intrinsic normal fibres can all be identified with one closed subspace of the ambient model. These identifications take tangent-chart coordinates of an ambient representative and then project along the moving tangent range. Their inverse uses the fixed complementary representative in the same tangent chart.
The coordinate operators have one less derivative than the embedding. At a point this includes smooth and analytic regularity; for finite or analytic regularity we also obtain one open neighbourhood on which the operators have that regularity. Smoothness at a point alone does not supply a single neighbourhood for all derivative orders. These are fibre coordinates, independent of any topology or atlas on the total normal bundle, and supply local models for constructing it.
The construction composes normalSpaceEquivInTangentCoordinates with
ContinuousLinearMap.quotientRangeEquiv. Local existence uses the fixed-complement theorem
ContinuousAt.exists_isInvertible_coprod_subtypeL and Mathlib's regularity of the differential
in tangent coordinates.
Reference: J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, the normal-bundle construction preceding Theorem 6.24.
Intrinsic normal coordinates in a fixed complementary parameter space. The complement
is specified by B; invertibility says it complements the coordinate differential's range.
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On ambient tangent representatives, normal coordinates take the complementary component of tangent-chart coordinates.
Inverse normal coordinates use the chosen complementary vector in the inverse ambient tangent chart and take its normal class.
Changing the complement and the ambient tangent chart gives the normal-coordinate
transition by applying the ambient tangent transition to the old complementary representative.
Use this rule with rw; expanding a general transition during simplification can obscure
the cancellation of a coordinate equivalence with its inverse.
Normal coordinates recover a parameter from its complementary representative.
For any valid fixed complement, the normal-coordinate operator is C^m at the chart
centre when the embedding is C^(m+1) there. This includes smooth and analytic regularity.
A positive-regularity embedding has a fixed closed complementary model for its intrinsic
normal fibres near each point. For every finite or analytic order m with m + 1 โค n, the
complementary coordinate operators are C^m on one open neighbourhood contained in the
source and ambient tangent-chart domains. No metric or finite-dimensionality is required.