Topological Manifolds

Summary

Topological manifolds are spaces that locally resemble Euclidean space.

Overview

A topological space (X,T)(X, \mathcal{T}) is called a manifold if and only if:

  • xT,UNx\forall x \in \mathcal{T}, U \in \mathcal{N}_x
    \exists a homeomorphism ϕx:UVRn\phi_x : U \to V \Subset \mathbb{R}^n for some nNn \in \mathbb{N}

References

Lee, Introduction to Topological Manifolds, Chapter 1
Munkres, Topology, Section 25