embedding
Let and be manifolds![]()
and a smooth map. Then is an embedding
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if
- 1.
is a submanifold

of , and
- 2.
is a diffeomorphism. (There’s an abuse of notation here. This should really be restated as the map defined by is a diffeomorphism.)
The above characterization![]()
can be equivalently stated: is an embedding if
- 1.
is an immersion, and
- 2.
by abuse of notation, is a homeomorphism.
Remark. A celebrated theorem![]()
of Whitney states that every dimensional manifold admits an embedding into .