The two-component structure of a disconnected overlap #
When two interior charts overlap disconnectedly, the overlap has exactly two connected
components, one at each end of each chart (outer-overlap lemma + two end-segments at the
same end must intersect). We also generalize the end-matching theorems of GlueCore from
the full overlap to a single component W: the extra hypothesis is that the relevant
interior endpoint is not in the image of the full overlap.
A strictly antitone map of Ioo p v onto Ioo q w tends to w at the bottom end.
Mirror component version: with the p-end interior to a.target, the w-end
interior to b.target, and p not in the image of the full overlap, the transition is
again increasing.
Two-component structure. A disconnected overlap of a chart with target Ioo 0 1
and a connected-source chart has exactly two components: one whose image is a lower
end-segment Ioo 0 r and one whose image is an upper end-segment Ioo p 1, with
r ≤ p.
The other chart also sees the two components as end-segments, one lower and one upper (in one of the two possible arrangements).