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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 ii Paper 1 25H iii Solution by
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The regular level set theorem says that a regular level of a smooth map from an -manifold to an -manifold is an -manifold. The corresponding sublevel-set theorem says that is a manifold with boundary when is a regular value of a smooth real-valued function, with the interior .
Apply this to on . On its gradient is nonzero. Thus is an -manifold and is an -manifold with boundary . Locally the implicit function theorem supplies as one coordinate; the ball occupies its nonpositive side, which is a half-space after reversing that coordinate. This also covers : the sphere consists of two points and the ball is the interval with those endpoints.
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