embedding
Let and be manifolds and a smooth map. Then is an embedding
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 .