Computable structures on topological manifolds
Abstract
We propose a definition of computable manifold by introducing computability as a structure that we impose to a given topological manifold, just in the same way as differentiability or piecewise linearity are defined for smooth and PL manifolds respectively. Using the framework of computable topology and Type-2 theory of effectivity, we develop computable versions of all the basic concepts needed to define manifolds, like computable atlases and (computably) compatible computable atlases. We prove that given a computable atlas defined on a set , we can construct a computable topological space , where is the topology on induced by and that the equivalence class of this computable space characterizes the computable structure determined by . The concept of computable submanifold is also investigated. We show that any compact computable manifold which satisfies a computable version of the -separation axiom, can be embedded as a computable submanifold of some euclidean space , with a computable embedding, where is equipped with its usual topology and some canonical computable encoding of all open rational balls.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1703.04075,
title = {Computable structures on topological manifolds},
author = {Marcelo A. Aguilar and Rodolfo Conde},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.04075},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
41 pages. Preliminary version submitted to a Journal