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Boundary of a Smooth Manifold with Boundary as a Smooth Manifold of Dimension n-1

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Let n∈n\in N\mathbb{N} with n≥2n\ge 2, and let MM be a smooth manifold with boundary of dimension nn whose boundary ∂M\partial M is nonempty. Give ∂M\partial M the subspace topology inherited from MM. Then the following hold.

  1. ∂M\partial M is a closed subset of MM.

  2. With the subspace topology, ∂M\partial M is Hausdorff and second countable.

  3. Let (U,φ)(U,\varphi) be a chart in the chosen atlas of MM with U∩∂M≠∅U\cap\partial M\ne\varnothing. Then φ(U∩∂M)=φ(U)∩∂Hn\varphi(U\cap\partial M)=\varphi(U)\cap\partial H^n, where ∂Hn\partial H^n is the boundary hyperplane of the closed upper half-space. Let π:Rn→Rn−1\pi:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^{n-1}, between Euclidean spaces, denote the projection π(x1,…,xn)=(x1,…,xn−1)\pi(x_1,\dots,x_n)=(x_1,\dots,x_{n-1}), and for c∈Rn−1c\in\mathbb{R}^{n-1} let Tc:Rn−1→Rn−1T_c:\mathbb{R}^{n-1}\to\mathbb{R}^{n-1} denote the translation Tc(y)=y+cT_c(y)=y+c. Then for every p∈U∩∂Mp\in U\cap\partial M there exist an open subset U′U' of MM with p∈U′⊆Up\in U'\subseteq U and a vector c∈Rn−1c\in\mathbb{R}^{n-1} such that the pair (U′∩∂M,ψ)(U'\cap\partial M,\psi), with chart map ψ=Tc∘π∘φ\psi=T_c\circ\pi\circ\varphi restricted to U′∩∂MU'\cap\partial M, is a chart of dimension n−1n-1 on ∂M\partial M whose image is contained in the set of points y=(y1,…,yn−1)y=(y_1,\dots,y_{n-1}) of the closed upper half-space Hn−1H^{n-1} with yn−1>0y_{n-1}>0. Charts of this form are called induced boundary charts of ∂M\partial M.

  4. Any two induced boundary charts are smoothly compatible, and the collection of all induced boundary charts is a smooth atlas of dimension n−1n-1 on ∂M\partial M, making ∂M\partial M a smooth manifold with boundary of dimension n−1n-1 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 ∂M\partial M is empty.

  5. If MM is compact in the sense of Smooth Atlas and Smooth Manifold with Boundary, then ∂M\partial M is compact, by claim 1 together with Closed Subset of a Compact Space is Compact.

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