0708-1300/Homework Assignment 3

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In Preparation

The information below is preliminary and cannot be trusted! (v)

Reading

Read sections 8-10 of chapter II of Bredon's book three times:

• First time as if you were reading a novel - quickly and without too much attention to detail, just to learn what the main keywords and concepts and goals are.
• Second time like you were studying for an exam on the subject - slowly and not skipping anything, verifying every little detail.
• And then a third time, again at a quicker pace, to remind yourself of the bigger picture all those little details are there to paint.

Also, read section 12 of chapter I of Bredon's book, but you can be a little less careful here.

Doing

Solve the following problems from Bredon's book, but submit only the solutions of the problems marked with an "S":

problems	on page(s)
1, 2, 3, S4, S5, S6	82
1, 2, S3, S4, 5	86

Due Date

This assignment is due in class on Thursday November 1, 2007.

Just for Fun

• Trace the proof of the Whitney embedding theorem to find an embedding of the two dimensional real projective plane, ${\mathbb {R} }{\mathbb {P} }^{2}=S^{2}/(p=-p)$, inside ${\mathbb {R} }^{5}$. Do not do anything explicitly; just convince yourself that indeed you can find a small atlas (how small?), use it to embed ${\mathbb {R} }{\mathbb {P} }^{2}$ in some large ${\mathbb {R} }^{N}$ (how large?), and figure out how many times you will need to use Sard's theorem before you're down to the target, ${\mathbb {R} }^{5}$.
• Now see if you can come up with some cleverer way of viewing ${\mathbb {R} }{\mathbb {P} }^{2}$, that will allow you to explicitly embed it in ${\mathbb {R} }^{5}$.