Prüfer manifold
In mathematics, the Prüfer manifold or Prüfer surface is a 2-dimensional Hausdorff real analytic manifold that is not paracompact. It was introduced by Radó (1925) and named after Heinz Prüfer.
Construction[edit]
The Prüfer manifold can be constructed as follows (Spivak 1979, appendix A). Take an uncountable number of copies Xa of the plane, one for each real number a, and take a copy H of the upper half plane (of pairs (x, y) with y > 0). Then glue the open upper half of each plane Xa to the upper half plane H by identifying (x,y)∈Xa for y > 0 with the point (a + yx, y) in H. The resulting quotient space Q is the Prüfer manifold. The images in Q of the points (0,0) of the spaces Xa under identification form an uncountable discrete subset.
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References[edit]
- Radó, T. (1925), "Über den Begriff der Riemannschen Flächen", Acta Litt. Sci. Szeged, 2: 101–121
- Solomentsev, E.D. (2001) [1994], "Prüfer surface", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press
- Spivak, Michael (1979), A comprehensive introduction to differential geometry. Vol. I (2nd ed.), Houston, TX: Publish or Perish, ISBN 978-0-914098-83-6, MR 0532830