Naturality of isotopy under composition with embeddings #
An isotopy is a homotopy through topological embeddings. This file records that the isotopy
relation is natural: composing on either side with a
topological embedding carries an isotopy to an isotopy, and so an isotopy relation to an
isotopy relation. These are the closure properties the geometric-topology roadmap
(TauCetiRoadmap/GeometricTopology/README.md) asks the general isotopy notion to carry
before specialising to smooth embeddings S¹ ↪ M: they mirror, for TauCeti.Isotopy, the
composition lemmas Mathlib provides for IsEmbedding (Topology.IsEmbedding.comp) and for
homotopy (ContinuousMap.Homotopy.comp, ContinuousMap.Homotopy.compContinuousMap), which
this file reuses for the underlying homotopies.
The two-sided generality (an embedding on either side, not merely a homeomorphism) is what the roadmap's layer-2 closure properties for locally flat embeddings will consume: a submanifold inclusion postcomposes, a chart or open embedding precomposes, and the isotopy survives both.
Main definitions #
TauCeti.Isotopy.postcomp: postcomposing an isotopyf₀ ≈ f₁with an embeddinggyields an isotopyg ∘ f₀ ≈ g ∘ f₁.TauCeti.Isotopy.precomp: precomposing an isotopyf₀ ≈ f₁with an embeddingeyields an isotopyf₀ ∘ e ≈ f₁ ∘ e.
Main results #
TauCeti.Isotopic.postcomp/TauCeti.Isotopic.precomp: the same closure on the isotopy relation.TauCeti.Isotopic.postcomp_precomp: the two-sided form, composing with an embedding on each side.TauCeti.Isotopic.postcomp_homeomorph/TauCeti.Isotopic.precomp_homeomorph: the common special case where the composing map is a homeomorphism (an ambient homeomorphism on the codomain, or a change of source coordinates).
Postcompose an isotopy f₀ ≈ f₁ with a topological embedding g : Y ↪ Z to get an
isotopy g ∘ f₀ ≈ g ∘ f₁.
Instances For
Precompose an isotopy f₀ ≈ f₁ with a topological embedding e : W ↪ X to get an
isotopy f₀ ∘ e ≈ f₁ ∘ e.
Instances For
Postcompose an isotopy relation with a topological embedding: if f₀ ≈ f₁ and g is an
embedding, then g ∘ f₀ ≈ g ∘ f₁.
Precompose an isotopy relation with a topological embedding: if f₀ ≈ f₁ and e is an
embedding, then f₀ ∘ e ≈ f₁ ∘ e.
The two-sided form: an isotopy relation survives composing with an embedding on each side.
Postcomposing an isotopy relation with a homeomorphism of the codomain.
Precomposing an isotopy relation with a homeomorphism of the source.