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Submanifold

A $C^\infty$ (infinitely differentiable) Manifold is said to be a submanifold of a $C^\infty$ Manifold $M'$ if $M$ is a Subset of $M'$ and the Identity Map of $M$ into $M'$ is an embedding.

See also Manifold, Subfield, Subspace




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26