Smooth radial coordinates with variable radius #
A positive C^n radius on the base identifies the entire smooth normal bundle of a
Euclidean immersion with its variable-radius open ball bundle. The identification preserves
base points and fixes the zero section. Unlike a constant radius, a variable radius can
shrink towards infinity on a noncompact submanifold, as needed to parametrize its tubular
neighbourhood by the whole normal bundle.
The construction composes normalBundleRadialPartialDiffeomorph at unit radius with
vectorBundleScalarDiffeomorph; it uses their smoothness and inverse laws rather than
reproving the radial calculus. As with the fixed-radius construction, install
normalFiberBundle locally to use the resulting partial diffeomorphism.
Reference: J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, Theorem 6.24.
Radial compression followed by fibrewise rescaling identifies the whole smooth normal
bundle with its open ball bundle of positive C^n radius r.
Instances For
Variable-radius radial coordinates are defined on the entire normal bundle.
The target consists exactly of normal vectors shorter than the radius at their base.
Compression uses the fixed-radius fibre formula with the radius at the base point.
The inverse expands using the radius at the same base point.