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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 smooth real - dimensional manifold (required also to be Hausdorff and second-countable) can be smoothly embedded in the 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 immersion provided . This last result is sometimes called the Whitney immersion theorem. About the proof Weak embedding ...
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