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Every open cover of a manifold has a countable relatively compact coordinate-ball subcover

Statement

Every open cover of a smooth manifold has a countable cover by coordinate balls with compact closures, each closure contained in one member of the original cover.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A smooth manifold $M$ and an open cover $U$ of $M$ .

[L1]

Coordinate balls form a basis of the underlying topological manifold (Coordinate balls form a basis of a topological manifold).

[L2]

Second-countable spaces are Lindelof (Assuming countable choice, every second countable space is Lindelöf).

[A1]

By the library convention in Smooth manifolds and their smooth charts, every smooth manifold is second countable.

Proof

technique · direct

1.1

For each $p \in M$ , choose $U_{p} \in U$ containing $p$ , then choose a coordinate ball $B_{p}$ with $p \in B_{p} \subseteq \overline{B_{p}} \subseteq U_{p}$ by [L1].

L1givenchoose

2.1

The family $(B_{p})_{p \in M}$ is an open cover of $M$ , so [A1] and [L2] give a countable subcover $B_{1}, B_{2}, \dots$ . Each $\overline{B_{n}}$ is compact and lies in some member of $U$ by step 1.1.

A1L2step 1.1

3.1

Thus the original cover has a countable subordinate cover by relatively compact coordinate balls.

step 2.1∎

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Sources

John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds (standard reference, not scraped)
Will J. Merry, Differential Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)
Nigel Hitchin, Differentiable Manifolds (standard reference, not scraped)