The normal exponential of a smooth embedding #
For a smooth embedding into a finite-dimensional Riemannian manifold, every intrinsic normal class has a unique representative orthogonal to the tangent space of the embedded submanifold. The normal exponential sends that representative through the ambient Riemannian exponential. Its natural domain consists of the classes whose representatives lie in the domain of the ambient exponential map; this domain contains the zero section and is star-convex in each fibre.
This is the local map used to construct tubular neighbourhoods in a general ambient manifold. The tubular-neighbourhood theorem additionally shrinks its domain so that the normal exponential is injective and a diffeomorphism onto an ambient neighbourhood.
References #
- J. M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, second edition, Theorem 6.24.
- M. W. Hirsch, Differential Topology, Chapter 4, Theorem 6.3.
The natural domain of the normal exponential: the intrinsic normal classes whose orthogonal representatives lie in the domain of the ambient Riemannian exponential.
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Membership in the natural normal-exponential domain means that the orthogonal representative lies in the natural domain of the ambient exponential at its base point.
On an orthogonal normal fibre, the normal-exponential domain is the preimage of the ambient exponential domain under the inclusion into the tangent space.
The zero normal class at every point lies in the natural domain of the normal exponential.
Every fibre slice of the natural normal-exponential domain is star-convex at zero.
The normal exponential sends an intrinsic normal class to the ambient exponential of its
orthogonal representative. It takes the base point as a junk value outside its natural domain,
following Manifold.riemannianExp.
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The normal exponential is the ambient Riemannian exponential of the orthogonal representative.
The normal exponential sends the zero section to the original embedding.
Outside its natural domain, the normal exponential takes its base point as a junk value.
On the class of an ambient tangent vector, the normal exponential uses its orthogonal projection to the normal directions.
On an orthogonal normal vector, the normal exponential agrees with the ambient Riemannian exponential without an additional projection.