Re:What Is a Manifold?
by username90 on Sunday April 14, 2019 @07:32AM
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Things with edges, like disks and finite lines.
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Re:What Is a Manifold?
by math_and_stuff on Sunday April 14, 2019 @08:58AM
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Both of those are typically referred to as manifolds with boundary. The setting of Stokes Theorem is often manifolds with boundary.
Mathematicians messed up here… A manifold with boundary is not a
manifold. But a manifold is a manifold with boundary (the empty set).
> Mathematicians messed up here… A manifold with boundary is not a manifold. But a manifold is a manifold with boundary (the empty set).
It depends on which mathematicians! Plenty of differential geometers allow manifolds to have boundary, and say "closed manifold" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_manifold) to emphasise when they are dealing with a (compact) manifold without boundary (or, as you point out, really a manifold whose boundary is empty).
Re:What Is a Manifold?
by Topolomancer on Sunday April 14, 2019 @10:23AM
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I thought a manifold with a boundary would still be a manifold, but its boundary has to satisfy a dimensionality condition. For example, the 2D disk is a 2-manifold with a 1-dimensional boundary. Strictly speaking, this is a _topological manifold with a boundary_, though.