MA3056: Exercise Sheet 2 — Topological Spaces
... (b) Give an example of a closed subset W ⊂ R × R such that p1 (W ) is not closed in R. 12. Let X = [−1, 1] equipped with the usual topology. (a) Let f : X → [0, 1] be the function f (x) = |x|. Show that quotient topology induced on [0, 1] by f coincides with the usual topology. (b) Find a surjection ...
... (b) Give an example of a closed subset W ⊂ R × R such that p1 (W ) is not closed in R. 12. Let X = [−1, 1] equipped with the usual topology. (a) Let f : X → [0, 1] be the function f (x) = |x|. Show that quotient topology induced on [0, 1] by f coincides with the usual topology. (b) Find a surjection ...
Problem Set 1 - Columbia Math
... 1. Show that collection τ0 of subsets of Rn forms a topology on Rn . 2. Let S = [0, 1] ⊂ R. Equip S with the subspace topology as a subset of R. Show that the set (1/2, 1] is open in S but that (1/2, 1] is not open in R. 3. This exercise will show that the product topology on R2 coincides with the s ...
... 1. Show that collection τ0 of subsets of Rn forms a topology on Rn . 2. Let S = [0, 1] ⊂ R. Equip S with the subspace topology as a subset of R. Show that the set (1/2, 1] is open in S but that (1/2, 1] is not open in R. 3. This exercise will show that the product topology on R2 coincides with the s ...
LECTURE 15-16: PROPER ACTIONS AND ORBIT SPACES 1
... In particular, the stabilizer Gm = {g ∈ G | g · m = m} is compact. Theorem 1.5. Suppose G acts on M properly. Then each orbit G · m is an embedded closed submanifold of M , with Tm (G · m) = {XM (m) | X ∈ g}. Proof. Since the evaluation map evm is proper, its image G · m is closed in M . (Basic topo ...
... In particular, the stabilizer Gm = {g ∈ G | g · m = m} is compact. Theorem 1.5. Suppose G acts on M properly. Then each orbit G · m is an embedded closed submanifold of M , with Tm (G · m) = {XM (m) | X ∈ g}. Proof. Since the evaluation map evm is proper, its image G · m is closed in M . (Basic topo ...
Topology Exercise sheet 3
... 2. Suppose X is a topological space. Prove that any intersection of closed sets is closed, and that any finite union of closed sets is closed. Give an example to show that infinite unions of closed sets need not be closed. 3. Suppose X is an uncountable set with the co-countable topology. Fix x. Pro ...
... 2. Suppose X is a topological space. Prove that any intersection of closed sets is closed, and that any finite union of closed sets is closed. Give an example to show that infinite unions of closed sets need not be closed. 3. Suppose X is an uncountable set with the co-countable topology. Fix x. Pro ...
Manifold
In mathematics, a manifold is a topological space that resembles Euclidean space near each point. More precisely, each point of an n-dimensional manifold has a neighbourhood that is homeomorphic to the Euclidean space of dimension n. Lines and circles, but not figure eights, are one-dimensional manifolds. Two-dimensional manifolds are also called surfaces. Examples include the plane, the sphere, and the torus, which can all be embedded in three dimensional real space, but also the Klein bottle and real projective plane which cannot.Although a manifold resembles Euclidean space near each point, globally it may not. For example, the surface of the sphere is not a Euclidean space, but in a region it can be charted by means of map projections of the region into the Euclidean plane (in the context of manifolds they are called charts). When a region appears in two neighbouring charts, the two representations do not coincide exactly and a transformation is needed to pass from one to the other, called a transition map.The concept of a manifold is central to many parts of geometry and modern mathematical physics because it allows more complicated structures to be described and understood in terms of the relatively well-understood properties of Euclidean space. Manifolds naturally arise as solution sets of systems of equations and as graphs of functions. Manifolds may have additional features. One important class of manifolds is the class of differentiable manifolds.This differentiable structure allows calculus to be done on manifolds. A Riemannian metric on a manifold allows distances and angles to be measured. Symplectic manifolds serve as the phase spaces in the Hamiltonian formalism of classical mechanics, while four-dimensional Lorentzian manifolds model spacetime in general relativity.