Manifold

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Definition

A topological space is said to be a manifold if it satisfies the following equivalent conditions:

  • It is Hausdorff
  • It is second countable
  • Every point has a neighbourhood that is homeomorphic to some open set in Euclidean space. If the topological space is connected, the dimension of the Euclidean space is the same for all points

Metaproperties

Products

This property of topological spaces is closed under taking arbitrary products
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A direct product of manifolds is again a manifold. Fill this in later