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Math 6510 • Differentiable Manifolds

Fall 2001 • Question 20

  1. Show that the Klein bottle cannot be embedded (as a smooth submanifold) into \(\mathbb {R}^3\).
  2. It is a fact that the Klein bottle can be embedded into \(\mathbb {R}^4\). Show that no such embedding \(K\subset \mathbb {R}^4\) can be given by a system of equations \[ f_1=0,\qquad f_2=0 \] with independent smooth functions \(f_1,f_2\) (i.e. where \(df_1,df_2\) are linearly independent at each point \(x\in K\)).

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\begin{enumerate}
\item Show that the Klein bottle cannot be embedded (as a smooth submanifold) into
\(\mathbb{R}^3\).
\item It is a fact that the Klein bottle can be embedded into \(\mathbb{R}^4\). Show
that no such embedding \(K\subset\mathbb{R}^4\) can be given by a system of equations
\[
  f_1=0,\qquad f_2=0
\]
with independent smooth functions \(f_1,f_2\) (i.e. where \(df_1,df_2\) are linearly
independent at each point \(x\in K\)).
\end{enumerate}