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  2. Topological manifold - Wikipedia

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    It is common to place additional requirements on topological manifolds. In particular, many authors define them to be paracompact [3] or second-countable. [2] In the remainder of this article a manifold will mean a topological manifold. An n-manifold will mean a topological manifold such that every point has a neighborhood homeomorphic to R n.

  3. List of manifolds - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of particular manifolds, by Wikipedia page. See also list of geometric topology topics . For categorical listings see Category:Manifolds and its subcategories.

  4. Manifold - Wikipedia

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    After a line, a circle is the simplest example of a topological manifold. Topology ignores bending, so a small piece of a circle is treated the same as a small piece of a line. Considering, for instance, the top part of the unit circle, x 2 + y 2 = 1, where the y-coordinate is positive (indicated by the yellow arc in Figure 1).

  5. Classification of manifolds - Wikipedia

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    The study of maps of 1-dimensional manifolds are a non-trivial area. For example: Groups of diffeomorphisms of 1-manifolds are quite difficult to understand finely [2] Maps from the circle into the 3-sphere (or more generally any 3-dimensional manifold) are studied as part of knot theory.

  6. Surgery theory - Wikipedia

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    Examples are the classification of exotic spheres, and the proofs of the Borel conjecture for negatively curved manifolds and manifolds with hyperbolic fundamental group. In the topological category, the surgery exact sequence is the long exact sequence induced by a fibration sequence of spectra. This implies that all the sets involved in the ...

  7. (G,X)-manifold - Wikipedia

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    In geometry, if X is a manifold with an action of a topological group G by analytical diffeomorphisms, the notion of a (G, X)-structure on a topological space is a way to formalise it being locally isomorphic to X with its G-invariant structure; spaces with a (G, X)-structure are always manifolds and are called (G, X)-manifolds.

  8. 5-manifold - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a 5-manifold is a 5-dimensional topological manifold, possibly with a piecewise linear or smooth structure. Non- simply connected 5-manifolds are impossible to classify, as this is harder than solving the word problem for groups . [ 1 ]

  9. Maps of manifolds - Wikipedia

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    Just as there are various types of manifolds, there are various types of maps of manifolds. PDIFF serves to relate DIFF and PL, and it is equivalent to PL.. In geometric topology, the basic types of maps correspond to various categories of manifolds: DIFF for smooth functions between differentiable manifolds, PL for piecewise linear functions between piecewise linear manifolds, and TOP for ...