Core lemmas for gluing overlapping charts #
Two results feed the gluing construction:
Connectivity: if
Uis a boundary chart (targetIio v), its overlap with any other chart is connected — every component'sU-image is an upper end-segmentIoo q v(outer-overlap lemma), and two upper end-segments always intersect.End-matching: the transition map on the overlap is strictly monotone in the direction forced by which ends of the two chart images are interior (the endpoint belongs to the chart target). If both interior ends were paired with each other, the overlap would accumulate at two distinct points of
Mat once, contradictingT2.
A strictly antitone map of Ioo p v onto Ioo q w tends to q at the top end.
A chart transition is continuous and injective wherever the first inverse chart lands in the second chart's source.
On a common source subset, chart transitions preserve coordinates and map the first chart image exactly onto the second.
A transition limit at interior chart endpoints identifies their inverse images.
The overlap of a boundary chart U (target Iio v) with any other chart is
connected: every component's U-image is an upper end-segment of Iio v, and two upper
end-segments intersect, so there is only one component.
Component version of overlap_mono: on a subset W of the overlap whose images are
Ioo p r and Ioo q w, with the r-end interior to a.target, the q-end interior to
b.target, and r not in the image of the full overlap, the transition is increasing.
End-matching, increasing case. Suppose the overlap S = a.source ∩ b.source has
image Ioo p r in chart a and Ioo q w in chart b, where the r-end is interior to
a.target and the q-end is interior to b.target. Then the transition is increasing:
a x < a y → b x < b y on S. (If it were decreasing, the overlap would accumulate at
both a.symm r and b.symm q along the same filter, forcing them equal — but then that
point would lie in S, putting r in Ioo p r.)
End-matching, decreasing case. Same setting, but now the p-end is interior to
a.target (and the q-end interior to b.target): the transition is decreasing.