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- Show that a compact manifold cannot be represented by a (single) parametric equation.
Show that ## M ## is a compact manifold in ##\mathbb{R}^{n},\ ## then ##\partial\ M\ ## is also compact; if also ## M ## is ## n ##-dimensional, then ##\partial\ M=## bdry ## M.##
Show that a compact manifold cannot be represented by a (single) parametric equation.
I asked online about two portion questions exercise, and I would like to know if the solutions displayed below is correct?
We know that ##M## is compact manifold in ##\mathbb{R}^n## and the boundary (of any manifold with boundary) ##\partial M## is closed in ##M##. Since every closed subset of a compact space is compact, then ##\partial M## is compact. For the problem that any compact manifold cannot be represent as single parametric equation, just note that if we can, then ##M## must be homeomorphic to an open subset of ##U \subset \mathbb{R}^{\text{dim }M}##. That is, there exists homeomorphism ##\varphi : M\to U = \varphi(M)\subset \mathbb{R}^{\text{dim }M}##. This implies that ##U## is compact (closed and bounded) and also open. Since ##U \subset \mathbb{R}^{\text{dim }M}## is open and closed and ##\mathbb{R}^{\text{dim }M}## connected, this means ##U=\mathbb{R}^{\text{dim }M}##. But this is impossible since ##U=\varphi(M)## is compact by continuity.
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