Paper 1, Section II, G

Differential Geometry | Part II, 2016

Define what is meant by the regular values and critical values of a smooth map f:XYf: X \rightarrow Y of manifolds. State the Preimage Theorem and Sard's Theorem.

Suppose now that dimX=dimY\operatorname{dim} X=\operatorname{dim} Y. If XX is compact, prove that the set of regular values is open in YY, but show that this may not be the case if XX is non-compact.

Construct an example with dimX=dimY\operatorname{dim} X=\operatorname{dim} Y and XX compact for which the set of critical values is not a submanifold of YY.

[Hint: You may find it helpful to consider the case X=S1X=S^{1} and Y=RY=\mathbf{R}. Properties of bump functions and the function e1/x2e^{-1 / x^{2}} may be assumed in this question.]

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