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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

Embedding, Manifold, Subfield, Subspace

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Submanifold." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Submanifold.html

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