Differentiable structures on a union of two open sets
Abstract
In a recent paper the authors classified differentiable structures on the non-Hausdorff one-dimensional manifold called the line with two origins which is obtained by gluing two copies of the real line via the identity homeomorphism of . Here we give a classification of differentiable structures on another non-Hausdorff one-dimensional manifold (called letter "") obtained by gluing two copies of via the identity map of positive reals. It turns out that, in contrast to the real line, for every , both manifolds and admit uncountably many pair-wise non-diffeomorphic -structures. We also observe that the proofs of these classifications are very similar. This allows to formalize the arguments and extend them to a certain general statement about arrows in arbitrary categories.
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@article{arxiv.2507.05156,
title = {Differentiable structures on a union of two open sets},
author = {Mykola Lysynskyi and Sergiy Maksymenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05156},
year = {2025}
}
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30 pages, 4 figures