Smooth concatenation of isotopies #
Concatenate two smooth isotopies by traversing the first in the first quarter of
the interval and the second in the last quarter. Both motions are stationary on
an open neighbourhood of the joining time, so their concatenation is jointly smooth.
This works at finite regularity and at C^∞; no analytic concatenation is asserted.
The smoothing uses Mathlib's Real.smoothTransition, following the stationary-time
reparametrization in Hirsch, Differential Topology, Chapter 8, §8.1.
Concatenate smooth isotopies, making the motion stationary around the join.
Finite differentiability and C^∞ are allowed.
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The concatenation traverses the first isotopy at smoothed speed in the first half, and the second at smoothed speed in the second half.
The concatenation is stationary at the common endpoint throughout the middle half.
At each source point, the concatenation only takes values that one of the two isotopies takes at that point.
Smooth isotopy is transitive at finite regularity and at C^∞.