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A nonembedding result for complex Grassmann manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

S. G. Hoggar
Affiliation:
University of Warwick and University of Glasgow
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A smooth map of a differentiable n-manifold into Euclidean (n+k)-space is called an immersion if its Jacobian has rank n at each point of M. If f is also 1-1, it is called an embedding.

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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1970

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