Boundary of a Smooth Manifold with Boundary as a Smooth Manifold of Dimension n-1
theoremTopologyGeometryMultivariable Calculusthm:boundary-smooth-manifold-structure-2026aLet with , and let be a smooth manifold with boundary of dimension whose boundary is nonempty. Give the subspace topology inherited from . Then the following hold.
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is a closed subset of .
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With the subspace topology, is Hausdorff and second countable.
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Let be a chart in the chosen atlas of with . Then , where is the boundary hyperplane of the closed upper half-space. Let , between Euclidean spaces, denote the projection , and for let denote the translation . Then for every there exist an open subset of with and a vector such that the pair , with chart map restricted to , is a chart of dimension on whose image is contained in the set of points of the closed upper half-space with . Charts of this form are called induced boundary charts of .
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Any two induced boundary charts are smoothly compatible, and the collection of all induced boundary charts is a smooth atlas of dimension on , making a smooth manifold with boundary of dimension in which every point is an interior point in the sense of Interior Points, Boundary Points, and Boundary of a Smooth Manifold with Boundary; that is, the boundary of is empty.
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If is compact in the sense of Smooth Atlas and Smooth Manifold with Boundary, then is compact, by claim 1 together with Closed Subset of a Compact Space is Compact.
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