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- From: tim@iss.nus.sg (Tim Poston)
- Subject: Re: Can space-time intersect itself?
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 09:29:59 GMT
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- jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
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- : An embedding is a 1-1 immersion, or loosely one with no
- : self-intersections.
- Not quite.
- The immersion of the real line into the torus
- that winds around with an irrational slope is 1-1,
- but _not_ an embedding because the image
- has a topology different from the real line.
- (A sequence of points in R can go to infinity
- while their images in the torus tend to a limit.)
-
- For compact manifolds, true,
-
- embedding = 1-1 immersion ;
-
- but compact is as boring as a positive definite metric.
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- tim
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