Math 141 Midterm 1 and Final Exam Practice Topology, Immersions, Submersions, Lie Groups
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serigeMath 141 Midterm 1 and Final exam practice
Topology, immersions, submersions, Lie groups.
1. Suppose f : Rm → Rn is continuous. Show that its graph Γ(f ) ⊂ Rm+n ,
defined by Γ(f ) := {(x, y) | f (x) = y} ⊂ Rm × Rn is closed.
2. Show that R is not homeomorphic to R2 .
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3. Compute√ the tangent space of the ellipsoid x + y + 2z = 1 at the point
P = (0, 0, 2/2).
4. (a) Let X ⊂ RN be a manifold of dimension n ≥ 1 and P ∈ X a point.
Show that there is a coordinate 1 ≤ i ≤ N such that the ith coordinate map
πi : X → R defined by πi (x1 , . . . , xN ) := xi is a submersion at P .
(b) Show more generally that it is possible to choose n different coordinate
maps which are independent at P , i.e. such that the resulting map X → Rn is
a local diffeomorphism at P .
(c) Deduce that for any X ∈ R3 a two-dimensional surface and any P ∈ X,
there is a chart ψ : U → X for a neighborhood of P with U ⊂ R2 and such
that either ψ(x, y) = (x, y, f (x, y)) or ψ(x, y) = (x, f (x, y), y) or ψ(x, y) =
(f (x, y), x, y) for some function f : R2 → R.
5. Show that the map α : R → R2 given by t 7→ (cos(t), sin(t)) is an immersion.
6. Let I = (0, 1) be the unit interval. Give an example of a map from the
disjoint union (0, 1) t (1, 2) to R2 which is an immersion and injective but not
an embedding.
7. (a) Prove that the map sq : GLn → GLn given by M 7→ M 2 is a local
diffeomorphism at I (hint: compute its differential).
(b) Is this map a diffeomorphism? (Hint: look at the determinant.)
(c) Deduce that for any Lie group G, the map sq : G → G is a local diffeo-
morphism.
8. True or false/short answer:
(a) Is the sphere S 2 connected? Is it compact?
(b) If f : X → Y takes P to Q, there is a pair of parametrizations ψP : U →
X, ψQ : V → Y such that U ⊂ TP (X), V ⊂ TQ (Y ) are open and the composed
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map U → V is given by dP f .
(c) A map is a local diffeomorphism if and only if it is both an immersion
and a submersion.
(d) The preimage of a critical value of a function f : X → Y is smooth.
(e) If a function f : X → Y is a submersion then every Q ∈ Y is a regular
value.
