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The boundary of a positive-dimensional manifold is a closed embedded smooth (n-1)-manifold

Statement

If M has dimension n≥1, the restrictions of boundary charts to their faces give ∂M the structure of a closed embedded smooth boundaryless (n−1)-manifold. For n=0, ∂M=∅.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A smooth n-manifold M with boundary.

[L1]

The boundary and interior defined in boundary charts are intrinsic (Smooth invariance of the manifold boundary).

[L2]

Boundary-chart transition maps are smooth in the local-extension sense (Smooth charts, atlases, and structures with boundary).

[L3]

A submanifold with boundary is embedded when its inclusion into the ambient manifold is a smooth embedding (Embedded smooth submanifolds with boundary).

Proof

technique · direct
1.1givenL1L2construct

Suppose n≥1. Restrict each boundary chart to the face xn=0. By [L1] these restrictions cover exactly ∂M. Their images are open subsets of Rn−1, and [L2] makes their transition maps smooth restrictions of extensions of the ambient transitions. They therefore define a smooth boundaryless (n−1)-manifold structure on ∂M.

2.1givenL3step 1.1algebra∎

In a boundary chart the inclusion ∂M↪M is the coordinate map (x1,…,xn−1)↦(x1,…,xn−1,0), so it is a smooth injective immersion and a homeomorphism onto its subspace image. Thus it is a smooth embedding, and [L3] gives the asserted embedded submanifold. The complement is locally {xn>0}, hence open, so ∂M is closed. When n=0, the boundary is empty by the stated convention.

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