Products of piecewise-linear maps #
Pairing two piecewise-affine maps refines their finite polyhedral covers by intersections. Localizing this construction gives pairing and products of PL maps, and characterizes PL maps into a product by their components. The product theorem supplies PL coordinate changes for product manifolds, including products of models with boundary and corners.
Reference: C. Rourke and B. Sanderson, Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology,
Chapters 1–2. The affine pieces use Mathlib's ContinuousAffineMap.prod.
Pairing two piecewise-affine maps on the same set is piecewise affine.
A map into a product is piecewise affine exactly when both components are.
Products of piecewise-affine maps are piecewise affine on product sets.
Pairing two PL maps on the same set is PL.
A map into a product is PL exactly when both components are.
Products of PL maps are PL on product sets. No finiteness or openness assumption on the domains is needed.