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Smooth manifolds

Smooth manifolds

Warm-upHuman

What is the dimension of the orthogonal group O(5)O(5) as a smooth manifold?

Smooth manifolds

CoreHuman

Which of these subsets are smooth embedded submanifolds of the ambient Euclidean space? (Choose all that apply.)

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CoreHuman

To show that O(n)O(n) is a manifold we used F(A)=ATAF(A) = A^{\mathsf T}A with codomain Symn\mathrm{Sym}_n, the symmetric matrices. What goes wrong if we take the codomain to be all of Mn(R)M_n(\R)?

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CoreHuman

Coordinates change from xx to x~\tilde x near pp, with Jacobian matrix J=∂x~/∂xJ = \partial \tilde x/\partial x at pp. A tangent vector has components vv in the old chart and JvJv in the new one. How do the components of a covector ω\omega (for example dfdf) change?

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CoreHuman

In the proof that dim⁡TpM=n\dim T_pM = n we wrote f(x)=f(a)+∑i(xi−ai)gi(x)f(x) = f(a) + \sum_i (x^i - a^i) g_i(x) and applied a derivation vv at aa. Why does the term (xi−ai)(a)⋅v(gi)(x^i - a^i)(a) \cdot v(g_i) vanish?

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CoreHuman

Let R=[0,2]×[0,3]R = [0, 2] \times [0, 3] with the anticlockwise boundary. Use Stokes's theorem to compute ∮∂Rx2y dx+(x33+2x)dy\displaystyle\oint_{\partial R} x^2 y\, dx + \Big(\frac{x^3}{3} + 2x\Big) dy.

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CoreHuman

What is the dimension of HdR1(R2∖{p1,p2,p3})H^1_{\mathrm{dR}}(\R^2 \setminus \{p_1, p_2, p_3\}), the first de Rham cohomology of the plane with three points removed?

Smooth manifolds

StretchFormal

Which Lean statement correctly formalises "dθd\theta is not exact on the circle R/2πZ\R/2\pi\Z"?

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StretchComputational

Write period(P, Q, n) that approximates the integral of the 11-form P(x,y) dx+Q(x,y) dyP(x, y)\,dx + Q(x, y)\,dy round the unit circle (cos⁡t,sin⁡t)(\cos t, \sin t), 0≤t≤2π0 \le t \le 2\pi, anticlockwise, by the rectangle rule with n equally spaced values of tt. Then check: the period of dθ=(x dy−y dx)/(x2+y2)d\theta = (x\,dy - y\,dx)/(x^2 + y^2) is 2π2\pi, and the period of the exact form d(x2y)d(x^2 y) is 00.

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