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Immersed Surface
In mathematics, an immersion is a differentiable function between differentiable manifolds whose differential (or pushforward) is everywhere injective. Explicitly, is an immersion if :D_pf : T_p M \to T_N\, is an injective function at every point ''p'' of ''M'' (where ''TpX'' denotes the tangent space of a manifold ''X'' at a point ''p'' in ''X''). Equivalently, ''f'' is an immersion if its derivative has constant rank equal to the dimension of ''M'': :\operatorname\,D_p f = \dim M. The function ''f'' itself need not be injective, only its derivative must be. A related concept is that of an embedding. A smooth embedding is an injective immersion that is also a topological embedding, so that ''M'' is diffeomorphic to its image in ''N''. An immersion is precisely a local embedding – that is, for any point there is a neighbourhood, , of ''x'' such that is an embedding, and conversely a local embedding is an immersion. For infinite dimensional manifolds, this is somet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klein Bottle
In topology, a branch of mathematics, the Klein bottle () is an example of a non-orientable surface; it is a two-dimensional manifold against which a system for determining a normal vector cannot be consistently defined. Informally, it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. Other related non-orientable objects include the Möbius strip and the real projective plane. While a Möbius strip is a surface with boundary, a Klein bottle has no boundary. For comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary. The concept of a Klein bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein. Construction The following square is a fundamental polygon of the Klein bottle. The idea is to 'glue' together the corresponding red and blue edges with the arrows matching, as in the diagrams below. Note that this is an "abstract" gluing in the sense that trying to realize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manifold
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that locally resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, an n-dimensional manifold, or ''n-manifold'' for short, is a topological space with the property that each point has a neighborhood that is homeomorphic to an open subset of n-dimensional Euclidean space. One-dimensional manifolds include lines and circles, but not lemniscates. Two-dimensional manifolds are also called surfaces. Examples include the plane, the sphere, and the torus, and also the Klein bottle and real projective plane. The concept of a manifold is central to many parts of geometry and modern mathematical physics because it allows complicated structures to be described in terms of well-understood topological properties of simpler spaces. Manifolds naturally arise as solution sets of systems of equations and as graphs of functions. The concept has applications in computer-graphics given the need to associate pictures with coordinates (e.g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Gromov (mathematician)
Mikhael Leonidovich Gromov (also Mikhail Gromov, Michael Gromov or Misha Gromov; russian: link=no, Михаи́л Леони́дович Гро́мов; born 23 December 1943) is a Russian-French mathematician known for his work in geometry, analysis and group theory. He is a permanent member of IHÉS in France and a professor of mathematics at New York University. Gromov has won several prizes, including the Abel Prize in 2009 "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry". Biography Mikhail Gromov was born on 23 December 1943 in Boksitogorsk, Soviet Union. His Russian father Leonid Gromov and his Jewish mother Lea Rabinovitz were pathologists. His mother was the cousin of World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik, as well as of the mathematician Isaak Moiseevich Rabinovich. Gromov was born during World War II, and his mother, who worked as a medical doctor in the Soviet Army, had to leave the front line in order to give birth to him. When Gromov was nine years old, his mother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homotopy Theory
In mathematics, homotopy theory is a systematic study of situations in which maps can come with homotopies between them. It originated as a topic in algebraic topology but nowadays is studied as an independent discipline. Besides algebraic topology, the theory has also been used in other areas of mathematics such as algebraic geometry (e.g., A1 homotopy theory) and category theory (specifically the study of higher categories). Concepts Spaces and maps In homotopy theory and algebraic topology, the word "space" denotes a topological space. In order to avoid pathologies, one rarely works with arbitrary spaces; instead, one requires spaces to meet extra constraints, such as being compactly generated, or Hausdorff, or a CW complex. In the same vein as above, a "map" is a continuous function, possibly with some extra constraints. Often, one works with a pointed space -- that is, a space with a "distinguished point", called a basepoint. A pointed map is then a map which preserv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Hirsch
Morris William Hirsch (born June 28, 1933) is an American mathematician, formerly at the University of California, Berkeley. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Hirsch attained his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1958, under supervision of Edwin Spanier and Stephen Smale. His thesis was entitled ''Immersions of Manifolds''. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Hirsch had 23 doctoral students, including William Thurston, William Goldman, and Mary Lou Zeeman. Selected works *with Stephen Smale and Robert L. Devaney: ''Differential equations, dynamical systems and an introduction to chaos'', Academic Press 2004 (2nd edition3rd edition, 2013*with Stephen Smale: ''Differential equations, dynamical systems and linear algebra'', Academic Press 1974 *Differential Topology, Springer 1976, 1997 *with Barry MazurSmoothings of piecewise linear manifolds Princeton University Press 1974 *with Charles C. Pugh, Michael Shub: Invariant Manifolds, Springer 1977 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sphere Eversion
In differential topology, sphere eversion is the process of turning a sphere inside out in a three-dimensional space (the word '' eversion'' means "turning inside out"). Remarkably, it is possible to smoothly and continuously turn a sphere inside out in this way (with possible self-intersections) without cutting or tearing it or creating any crease. This is surprising, both to non-mathematicians and to those who understand regular homotopy, and can be regarded as a veridical paradox; that is something that, while being true, on first glance seems false. More precisely, let :f\colon S^2\to \R^3 be the standard embedding; then there is a regular homotopy of immersions :f_t\colon S^2\to \R^3 such that ''ƒ''0 = ''ƒ'' and ''ƒ''1 = −''ƒ''. History An existence proof for crease-free sphere eversion was first created by . It is difficult to visualize a particular example of such a turning, although some digital animations have been produced that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stiefel Manifold
In mathematics, the Stiefel manifold V_k(\R^n) is the set of all orthonormal ''k''-frames in \R^n. That is, it is the set of ordered orthonormal ''k''-tuples of vectors in \R^n. It is named after Swiss mathematician Eduard Stiefel. Likewise one can define the complex Stiefel manifold V_k(\Complex^n) of orthonormal ''k''-frames in \Complex^n and the quaternionic Stiefel manifold V_k(\mathbb^n) of orthonormal ''k''-frames in \mathbb^n. More generally, the construction applies to any real, complex, or quaternionic inner product space. In some contexts, a non-compact Stiefel manifold is defined as the set of all linearly independent ''k''-frames in \R^n, \Complex^n, or \mathbb^n; this is homotopy equivalent, as the compact Stiefel manifold is a deformation retract of the non-compact one, by Gram–Schmidt. Statements about the non-compact form correspond to those for the compact form, replacing the orthogonal group (or unitary or symplectic group) with the general linear group. Top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homotopy Groups
In mathematics, homotopy groups are used in algebraic topology to classify topological spaces. The first and simplest homotopy group is the fundamental group, denoted \pi_1(X), which records information about loops in a space. Intuitively, homotopy groups record information about the basic shape, or ''holes'', of a topological space. To define the ''n''-th homotopy group, the base-point-preserving maps from an ''n''-dimensional sphere (with base point) into a given space (with base point) are collected into equivalence classes, called homotopy classes. Two mappings are homotopic if one can be continuously deformed into the other. These homotopy classes form a group, called the ''n''-th homotopy group, \pi_n(X), of the given space ''X'' with base point. Topological spaces with differing homotopy groups are never equivalent (homeomorphic), but topological spaces that homeomorphic have the same homotopy groups. The notion of homotopy of paths was introduced by Camille Jordan. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Smale
Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty of the University of California, Berkeley (1960–1961 and 1964–1995), where he currently is Professor Emeritus, with research interests in algorithms, numerical analysis and global analysis. Education and career Smale was born in Flint, Michigan and entered the University of Michigan in 1948. Initially, he was a good student, placing into an honors calculus sequence taught by Bob Thrall and earning himself A's. However, his sophomore and junior years were marred with mediocre grades, mostly Bs, Cs and even an F in nuclear physics. However, with some luck, Smale was accepted as a graduate student at the University of Michigan's mathematics department. Yet again, Smale performed poorly in his first years, earning a C average as a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Embedding Theorem
In mathematics, particularly in differential topology, there are two Whitney embedding theorems, named after Hassler Whitney: *The strong Whitney embedding theorem states that any differentiable manifold, smooth real numbers, real -dimension (mathematics), dimensional manifold (required also to be Hausdorff space, Hausdorff and second-countable) can be smooth map, smoothly embedding, embedded in the real coordinate space, real -space (), if . This is the best linear bound on the smallest-dimensional Euclidean space that all -dimensional manifolds embed in, as the real projective spaces of dimension cannot be embedded into real -space if is a power of two (as can be seen from a characteristic class argument, also due to Whitney). *The weak Whitney embedding theorem states that any continuous function from an -dimensional manifold to an -dimensional manifold may be approximated by a smooth embedding provided . Whitney similarly proved that such a map could be approximated by an imm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitney Immersion Theorem
In differential topology, the Whitney immersion theorem (named after Hassler Whitney) states that for m>1, any smooth m-dimensional manifold (required also to be Hausdorff and second-countable) has a one-to-one immersion in Euclidean 2m-space, and a (not necessarily one-to-one) immersion in (2m-1)-space. Similarly, every smooth m-dimensional manifold can be immersed in the 2m-1-dimensional sphere (this removes the m>1 constraint). The weak version, for 2m+1, is due to transversality (general position, dimension counting): two ''m''-dimensional manifolds in \mathbf^ intersect generically in a 0-dimensional space. Further results William S. Massey went on to prove that every ''n''-dimensional manifold is cobordant to a manifold that immerses in S^ where a(n) is the number of 1's that appear in the binary expansion of n. In the same paper, Massey proved that for every ''n'' there is manifold (which happens to be a product of real projective spaces) that does not immerse in S^. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embedding
In mathematics, an embedding (or imbedding) is one instance of some mathematical structure contained within another instance, such as a group that is a subgroup. When some object X is said to be embedded in another object Y, the embedding is given by some injective and structure-preserving map f:X\rightarrow Y. The precise meaning of "structure-preserving" depends on the kind of mathematical structure of which X and Y are instances. In the terminology of category theory, a structure-preserving map is called a morphism. The fact that a map f:X\rightarrow Y is an embedding is often indicated by the use of a "hooked arrow" (); thus: f : X \hookrightarrow Y. (On the other hand, this notation is sometimes reserved for inclusion maps.) Given X and Y, several different embeddings of X in Y may be possible. In many cases of interest there is a standard (or "canonical") embedding, like those of the natural numbers in the integers, the integers in the rational numbers, the rational n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
