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The image of a lower-dimensional manifold is null
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Countable Choice. Let and be smooth manifolds with , and let be a map. Then is a null subset of .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Countable Choice and a map with .
An equidimensional map sends null sets to null sets (An equidimensional map sends null sets to null sets).
A countable chart cover detects manifold nullity (A countable chart cover detects manifold null sets).
Every smooth manifold admits a countable smooth atlas with relatively compact domains (Assuming Countable Choice, every smooth manifold admits a countable smooth atlas with relatively compact domains).
Countable unions and subsets of manifold null sets are null under Countable Choice (Countable unions and subsets of manifold null sets are null).
A Euclidean null set has arbitrarily small countable closed-cube covers (Measure zero and content zero in by countable and finite cube covers).
Proof
Under the stated Countable Choice, choose countable smooth atlases on and on as in [L3]. The countable family of open sets covers . It is enough to show that the image of each is null in , then use [L4] for their union.
Fix one open overlap , write , and let be its target chart. Define The slice is Euclidean null: cover it by countably many bounded -cubes times ; for each cube, finite -cube covers of arbitrarily small total volume are obtained by choosing a sufficiently thin grid in the remaining coordinates, and [F1] combines these with geometric error budgets under Countable Choice. The map is . Thus [L1] makes Euclidean null.
To check every target chart , apply the same argument to the further open overlap ; its coordinate map has target , so step 2.1 makes Euclidean null. The countable chart cover on detects as null by [L2]. Finally [L4] makes the countable union null.
Depends on
- Null subsets of a smooth manifold
- An equidimensional $C^1$ map sends null sets to null sets
- A countable chart cover detects manifold null sets
- Assuming Countable Choice, every smooth manifold admits a countable smooth atlas with relatively compact domains
- Countable unions and subsets of manifold null sets are null
- Measure zero and content zero in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by countable and finite cube covers
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
Used by
- A smooth map from lower to higher dimension cannot be surjective Corollary
- Positive-codimension immersed submanifolds are null Corollary
- A generic linear projection preserves injectivity and immersion Lemma
- A no-transversal leaf bounds a positive accessibility region with finite inward boundary Lemma
- A noncompact leaf of a compact C2 foliation meets a positive closed transversal Lemma
- Finite general position for a leafwise loop Lemma
- Moving a sphere off a lower-dimensional submanifold Lemma
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Sources
- Marco Gualtieri, Topology I: Smooth Manifolds, cumulative notes (standard reference, not scraped)