Smooth ambient isotopy of smooth embeddings #
This file specializes TauCeti.SmoothAmbientIsotopic, the smooth ambient-isotopy relation on
arbitrary bundled smooth maps, to bundled smooth embeddings. Two embeddings are related when a
diffeotopy of the codomain carries the first to the second at time one. This is the smooth
equivalence relation needed by geometric knot presentations: unlike
SmoothEmbedding.ContinuousAmbientIsotopic, its witness is smooth in both time and the ambient
variable and every time slice is a diffeomorphism.
The general relation is defined once for arbitrary C^n maps; this file's relation is its thin
specialization along SmoothEmbedding.toContMDiffMap. Smooth knots are obtained by taking the
domain to be the circle and the codomain to be the ambient 3-manifold. Forgetting the
diffeotopy's smoothness recovers continuous ambient isotopy.
This is the specialization of TauCeti.Diffeotopy requested by Layer 4 of the
GeometricTopology roadmap, in the milestone “equivalence in each presentation.”
Main definitions #
TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.SmoothAmbientIsotopic: smooth ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings.TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.SmoothAmbientIsotopic.setoid: the resulting equivalence relation.
Main results #
SmoothAmbientIsotopic.refl,symm, andtrans: smooth ambient isotopy is an equivalence relation.SmoothAmbientIsotopic.continuousAmbientIsotopic: smoothly ambient isotopic embeddings are continuously ambient isotopic.
References #
- G. Burde and H. Zieschang, Knots, 2nd ed., de Gruyter (2003), Chapter 1, for ambient isotopy as knot equivalence.
- M. Hirsch, Differential Topology, Springer GTM 33 (1976), Chapter 8, §8.1, for smooth isotopies.
Two smooth embeddings are smoothly ambient isotopic when the final diffeomorphism of a
C^n diffeotopy of the codomain carries the first embedding to the second.
Equations
Instances For
Smooth ambient isotopy of embeddings is exactly the general relation
TauCeti.SmoothAmbientIsotopic on the underlying bundled smooth maps.
Smooth ambient isotopy is witnessed by a diffeotopy whose final diffeomorphism carries the first embedding pointwise to the second.
A diffeotopy carrying f to g witnesses their smooth ambient isotopy.
Smooth ambient isotopy of embeddings is reflexive.
Smooth ambient isotopy of embeddings is symmetric.
Smooth ambient isotopy of embeddings is transitive.
Smooth ambient isotopy is an equivalence relation on bundled smooth embeddings.
Smooth ambient isotopy implies continuous ambient isotopy after forgetting the smoothness of the witnessing diffeotopy.
Smooth ambient isotopy of bundled smooth embeddings, packaged as a setoid.
Equations
- TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.SmoothAmbientIsotopic.setoid I J n M N = { r := TauCeti.SmoothEmbedding.SmoothAmbientIsotopic, iseqv := ⋯ }
Instances For
The relation of the smooth-ambient-isotopy setoid is smooth ambient isotopy.