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by harveywi 911 days ago
Maybe a dumb question: Shouldn't these be called immersions instead of embeddings?
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nybsjytm 911 days ago
No, since there isn't a differentiable structure. And even the use of "embedding" doesn't really match the way mathematicians would use the word.
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fudged71 911 days ago
Is there a better mathematical term? Mapping?
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