Nov 2, 2010 #1 racoonlly Messages 1 Reaction score 0 Is there any non-orientable one-dimensional manifold ? If not, how to prove it? Thanks!
Nov 2, 2010 #2 quasar987 Science Advisor Homework Helper Gold Member Messages 4,796 Reaction score 32 The standard way to go is to go ahead and prove that up to homeomorphism, the only 1- dimensional manifolds (without boundary) are the real line and the circle. This is done in Lee's "Introduction to topological manifolds" for instance.
The standard way to go is to go ahead and prove that up to homeomorphism, the only 1- dimensional manifolds (without boundary) are the real line and the circle. This is done in Lee's "Introduction to topological manifolds" for instance.