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The closed disk D2 is a connected Hausdorff topological 2-manifold with boundary

Statement

Let D2={z∈C:∣z∣≤1} carry the subspace topology of the metric topology of C (The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane) and let H2={(x,y)∈R2:y≥0} be the Euclidean upper half-space (Euclidean upper half-space and its boundary), identified with {z∈C:Im⁡z≥0} through x+iy↦(x,y) (The complex numbers as R[x]/(x2+1), with the real embedding and imaginary unit i). Then D2 is nonempty and connected, it is Hausdorff and second countable, and it is a topological 2-manifold with boundary (Topological manifolds with boundary): every point of D2 has a neighbourhood in D2 homeomorphic to a relatively open subset of H2. Concretely, for ∣z∣<1 the translation ψ(w):=w+2i maps the open neighbourhood D2∩B(z,12(1−∣z∣)) of z in D2 homeomorphically onto an open subset of R2 contained in the open upper half-plane; and for ∣q∣=1 the map φq(w):=i(q−w)q+w, defined on the open neighbourhood Vq:=D2∩{w∈C:∣w−q∣<1} of q in D2, is a homeomorphism of Vq onto an open subset of H2 containing 0, with inverse u↦q(i−u)/(i+u).

Facts & Assumptions

Given: The closed disk D2⊆C with the subspace topology, and the half-space H2⊆R2.

[F2]

Hausdorffness and second countability are hereditary properties, so every subspace of a Hausdorff, second countable space has both properties; a subspace carries the subspace topology (T0, T1, and Hausdorffness are hereditary, Second countability is hereditary, Subspace topology: the traces of the open sets, its closed sets and its bases, the continuity of the inclusion, and the characteristic property of a map into a subspace).

[F3]

Modulus is definite, multiplicative and subadditive: ∣zw∣=∣z∣∣w∣, ∣z+w∣≤∣z∣+∣w∣ and ∣z∣=0 only for z=0 (Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, zz‾=∣z∣2, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive); complex addition, multiplication and the maps w↦w+c are continuous (Vector addition and scalar multiplication are continuous in a normed space, Continuity of a map of topological spaces at a point and globally).

[F5]

For a metric space, balls B(z,r) and the metric topology are as in Open ball, closed ball and sphere in a metric space and The metric topology: a set is open when every one of its points has a ball around it inside the set; closed means open complement; continuity of maps between metric spaces is the ε-δ condition of Continuity of a map between metric spaces, at a point and globally, in the ε-δ form. A homeomorphism is a continuous bijection with continuous inverse, and the restriction of a homeomorphism to an open subset is a homeomorphism onto its image (Homeomorphism, open map, closed map, embedding, and what it means for a property to be topological).

[F6]

A topological n-manifold with boundary is a Hausdorff, second countable space in which every point has a neighbourhood homeomorphic to a relatively open subset of Hn (Topological manifolds with boundary); under the identification C=R2 used in [F1], the half-space H2 corresponds to {z∈C:Im⁡z≥0}, because z=x+iy has coordinates (x,y) (The complex numbers as R[x]/(x2+1), with the real embedding and imaginary unit i, Euclidean upper half-space and its boundary).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1

The ambient plane and its subspaces. By [F1] the metric topology of C is the Euclidean topology of R2 under x+iy↦(x,y); R2 is Hausdorff and second countable with the countable basis of rational open boxes. Since D2⊆C carries the subspace topology, [F2] makes D2 Hausdorff and second countable.

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1.2

D2 is nonempty, convex and connected. Clearly 0∈D2. If z,w∈D2 and t∈[0,1], then ∣(1−t)z+tw∣≤(1−t)∣z∣+t∣w∣≤1 by multiplicativity and subadditivity of the modulus in [F3], so D2 is convex; it is a nonempty convex subset of R2 in the sense of [F4], hence contractible, hence path-connected, hence connected.

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Interior charts. Let z∈C with ∣z∣<1 and put r:=12(1−∣z∣)>0. If ∣w−z∣<r then ∣w∣≤∣z∣+∣w−z∣<∣z∣+r<1 by [F3], so B(z,r)⊆D2 and U:=D2∩B(z,r)=B(z,r) is an open neighbourhood of z in D2 that is open in C as well. The translation ψ(w):=w+2i is continuous with continuous inverse u↦u−2i by [F3], hence a homeomorphism of C; its restriction to U is therefore a homeomorphism of U onto the open set ψ(U)⊆R2, and for w∈U one has Im⁡w≥−∣w∣>−1 and hence Im⁡ψ(w)=Im⁡w+2>1>0, so ψ(U) lies in the open upper half-plane and is in particular a relatively open subset of H2 containing ψ(z).

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1.4

The two-sided inverse of the boundary formula. Let q∈C with ∣q∣=1, put φq(w):=i(q−w)/(q+w) for w≠−q, and put ψ(u):=q(i−u)/(i+u) for u≠−i. Both are defined on the sets where they are used below, because ∣q−(−q)∣=2>1 gives −q∉Vq and because ∣i+u∣≥Im⁡u+1≥1>0 whenever Im⁡u≥0. For u≠−i, i(q−ψ(u))q+ψ(u)=i(1−i−ui+u)1+i−ui+u=i (i+u)−(i−u)i+u(i+u)+(i−u)i+u=i⋅2u2i=u, so φq∘ψ=id⁡ on C∖{−i}, in particular on {Im⁡u≥0}, and for w≠−q, ψ(φq(w))=q(i−i(q−w)q+w)i+i(q−w)q+w=q i 2wq+wi 2qq+w=w, so ψ∘φq=id⁡ on C∖{−q}, which contains Vq. Hence φq and ψ are mutually inverse bijections between C∖{−q} and C∖{−i}, and in particular φq is injective on D2∖{−q}.

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2.1

Which points of the plane are carried into the half-space. Let w∈D2∖{−q} and multiply numerator and denominator of φq(w) by qˉ+wˉ, which is the conjugate of q+w: using qqˉ=∣q∣2=1, wwˉ=∣w∣2 and s−sˉ=2iIm⁡s for s:=qwˉ gives φq(w)=i(q−w)(qˉ+wˉ)∣q+w∣2=i(∣q∣2+qwˉ−wqˉ−∣w∣2)∣q+w∣2=i(1−∣w∣2+2iIm⁡(qwˉ))∣q+w∣2, so Im⁡φq(w)=(1−∣w∣2)/∣q+w∣2, which is ≥0 exactly when ∣w∣≤1: thus φq maps D2∖{−q} into the closed upper half-plane {Im⁡u≥0}. Conversely, if Im⁡u≥0 then ∣ψ(u)∣2=∣i−u∣2∣i+u∣2=(Re⁡u)2+(1−Im⁡u)2(Re⁡u)2+(1+Im⁡u)2≤1, because the last inequality is equivalent to (1−Im⁡u)2≤(1+Im⁡u)2, that is to −2Im⁡u≤2Im⁡u. Hence ψ maps {Im⁡u≥0} into D2. Since φq∘ψ is the identity by step 1.4, φq is surjective onto {Im⁡u≥0} and ψ is injective; by step 1.4, φq is also injective. So φq:D2∖{−q}→{Im⁡u≥0} is a bijection with inverse ψ.

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3.1

φq and ψ are continuous, hence homeomorphisms. For w,w0∈D2∖{−q} expansion gives φq(w)−φq(w0)=i(q−w)(q+w0)−i(q−w0)(q+w)(q+w)(q+w0)=2iq(w0−w)(q+w)(q+w0), so by multiplicativity of the modulus and ∣i∣=∣q∣=1, ∣φq(w)−φq(w0)∣=2∣w−w0∣∣q+w∣ ∣q+w0∣. Let δ:=∣q+w0∣>0 and suppose ∣w−w0∣≤δ/2; then ∣q+w∣≥∣q+w0∣−∣w−w0∣≥δ/2 by subadditivity, so ∣φq(w)−φq(w0)∣≤4∣w−w0∣/δ2, which is <ε as soon as ∣w−w0∣<min⁡(δ/2,εδ2/4). This is the ε-δ condition of [F5] for continuity of φq at w0. The same expansion with i in place of q and u's in place of w's gives ∣ψ(u)−ψ(u0)∣=2∣u−u0∣/(∣i+u∣∣i+u0∣), and ∣i+u0∣≥1 for Im⁡u0≥0, so ψ is continuous on the closed upper half-plane as well. By step 2.1 and [F5], φq is a homeomorphism of D2∖{−q} onto {Im⁡u≥0}; consequently φq(Vq) is a relatively open subset of H2 by [F6], because Vq is open in D2 and hence in D2∖{−q}, and it contains φq(q)=0.

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4.1

Conclusion. Step 3.1 shows that for ∣q∣=1 the restriction of φq to the neighbourhood Vq of q in D2 is a homeomorphism onto a relatively open subset of H2 containing 0, and step 1.3 provides the corresponding chart at every point with ∣z∣<1. Step 1.2 shows D2 is nonempty and connected and step 1.1 shows it is Hausdorff and second countable, so every point of D2 has a neighbourhood homeomorphic to a relatively open subset of H2: by [F6], D2 is a topological 2-manifold with boundary, as claimed.

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