A (infinitely differentiable) manifold is said to be a submanifold of a manifold if is a subset of and the identity map of into is an embedding.
Submanifold
See also
Embedding, Manifold, Subfield, SubspaceExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Submanifold." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Submanifold.html