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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 ib Paper 1 2A Solution by
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The image is a ring torus: a circle of radius is rotated about the vertical axis at distance from that axis. Put . Since , every image point has , and the image is preciselyConversely, on this level set the pairs and are unit vectors, so choosing their angles gives a preimage.
The specified angular rectangle removes two closed circles from the torus. More explicitly its image isHere is the outer equatorial circle and is a meridian. The given openness property makes open in . On , the angles of and are uniquely chosen in ; their continuous argument branches give the inverse . Thus the restriction is a homeomorphism onto , and the inverse is locally smooth.
For the immersion condition, the two derivatives have inner productsThey are linearly independent everywhere, since . Hence this is a smooth embedded surface parametrization.
The angular cuts do not represent singularities of the embedded torus of revolution. To give a direct proof covering all points, define on the open region . On ,The implicit function theorem therefore describes near every point as a smooth graph of two coordinates. The whole torus is a smooth embedded surface.
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