nLab submanifold

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Idea

A submanifold is a manifold inside another manifold.

Definition

For a homomorphism of differentiable manifolds

XY X \hookrightarrow Y

to qualify as a submanifold inclusion it is usually required to be an embedding of differentiable manifolds, hence

  1. an embedding of topological spaces;

  2. an immersion of differentiable manifolds.

References

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