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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 1 25H i Solution by
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A smooth -dimensional manifold with boundary has charts onto relatively open subsets of the half-space , with smooth transition maps extending smoothly locally across the boundary. A point is a boundary point when its last coordinate in such a chart is zero; this condition is independent of chart. One way to see the independence is that a local diffeomorphism between half-spaces preserves their interior and hence their topological boundary.
Restrict each boundary chart to and drop the last coordinate. It maps the boundary onto an open subset of , and the restricted transitions are smooth diffeomorphisms. These charts, with the inherited Hausdorff and countability properties, make a smooth manifold without boundary. Therefore
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