Diffeomorphism

Short description: Isomorphism of smooth manifolds; a smooth bijection with a smooth inverse

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In mathematics, a diffeomorphism is an isomorphism of smooth manifolds. It is an invertible function that maps one differentiable manifold to another such that both the function and its inverse are continuously differentiable.

The image of a rectangular grid on a square under a diffeomorphism from the square onto itself.

## Contents

* 1 Definition
* 2 Diffeomorphisms of subsets of manifolds
* 3 Local description
* 4 Examples
* 4.1 Surface deformations
* 5 Diffeomorphism group
* 5.1 Topology
* 5.2 Lie algebra
* 5.3 Examples
* 5.4 Transitivity
* 5.5 Extensions of diffeomorphisms
* 5.6 Connectedness
* 5.7 Homotopy types
* 6 Homeomorphism and diffeomorphism
* 7 See also
* 8 Notes
* 9 References

## Definition

Given two manifolds M and N, a differentiable map f:M->N is called a diffeomorphism if it is a bijection and its inverse f−1:N->M is differentiable as well. If these functions are r times continuously differentiable, f is called a Cr-diffeomorphism.

Two manifolds M and N are diffeomorphic (usually denoted M≃N) if there is a diffeomorphism f from M to N. They are Cr-diffeomorphic if there is an r times continuously differentiable bijective map between them whose inverse is also r times continuously differentiable.

## Diffeomorphisms of subsets of manifolds

Given a subset X of a manifold M and a subset Y of a manifold N, a function f:X->Y is said to be smooth if for all p in X there is a neighborhood U⊂M of p and a smooth function g:U->N such that the restrictions agree: g|U∩X=f|U∩X (note that g is an extension of f). The function f is said to be a diffeomorphism if it is bijective, smooth and its inverse is smooth.

## Local description

Hadamard-Caccioppoli Theorem[1]

If U, V are connected open subsets of ℝn such that V is simply connected, a differentiable map f:U->V is a diffeomorphism if it is proper and if the differential Dfx:ℝn->ℝn is bijective (and hence a linear isomorphism) at each point x in U.

> First remark

> It is essential for V to be simply connected for the function f to be globally invertible (under the sole condition that its derivative be a bijective map at each point). For example, consider the "realification" of the complex square function

>     {f:ℝ2∖{(0,0)}->ℝ2∖{(0,0)}(x,y)↦(x2−y2,2xy).

> Then f is surjective and it satisfies

>     det⁡Dfx=4(x2+y2)≠0.

> Thus, though Dfx is bijective at each point, f is not invertible because it fails to be injective (e.g. f(1,0)=(1,0)=f(−1,0)).

> Second remark

> Since the differential at a point (for a differentiable function)

>     Dfx:TxU->Tf(x)V

> is a linear map, it has a well-defined inverse if and only if Dfx is a bijection. The matrix representation of Dfx is the n×n matrix of first-order partial derivatives whose entry in the i-th row and j-th column is ∂fi/∂xj. This so-called Jacobian matrix is often used for explicit computations.

> Third remark

> Diffeomorphisms are necessarily between manifolds of the same dimension. Imagine f going from dimension n to dimension k. If n<k then Dfx could never be surjective, and if n>k then Dfx could never be injective. In both cases, therefore, Dfx fails to be a bijection.

> Fourth remark

> If Dfx is a bijection at x then f is said to be a local diffeomorphism (since, by continuity, Dfy will also be bijective for all y sufficiently close to x).

> Fifth remark

> Given a smooth map from dimension n to dimension k, if Df (or, locally, Dfx) is surjective, f is said to be a submersion (or, locally, a "local submersion"); and if Df (or, locally, Dfx) is injective, f is said to be an immersion (or, locally, a "local immersion").

> Sixth remark

> A differentiable bijection is not necessarily a diffeomorphism. f(x)=x3, for example, is not a diffeomorphism from ℝ to itself because its derivative vanishes at 0 (and hence its inverse is not differentiable at 0). This is an example of a homeomorphism that is not a diffeomorphism.

> Seventh remark

> When f is a map between differentiable manifolds, a diffeomorphic f is a stronger condition than a homeomorphic f. For a diffeomorphism, f and its inverse need to be differentiable; for a homeomorphism, f and its inverse need only be continuous. Every diffeomorphism is a homeomorphism, but not every homeomorphism is a diffeomorphism.

f:M->N is called a diffeomorphism if, in coordinate charts, it satisfies the definition above. More precisely: Pick any cover of M by compatible coordinate charts and do the same for N. Let ϕ and ψ be charts on, respectively, M and N, with U and V as, respectively, the images of ϕ and ψ. The map ψfϕ−1:U->V is then a diffeomorphism as in the definition above, whenever f(ϕ−1(U))⊆ψ−1(V).

## Examples

Since any manifold can be locally parametrised, we can consider some explicit maps from ℝ2 into ℝ2.

* Let

f(x,y)=(x2+y3,x2−y3).
We can calculate the Jacobian matrix:

Jf=(2x3y22x−3y2).
The Jacobian matrix has zero determinant if and only if xy=0. We see that f could only be a diffeomorphism away from the x-axis and the y-axis. However, f is not bijective since f(x,y)=f(−x,y), and thus it cannot be a diffeomorphism.

* Let

g(x,y)=(a0+a1,0x+a0,1y+⋯, b0+b1,0x+b0,1y+⋯)
where the ai,j and bi,j are arbitrary real numbers, and the omitted terms are of degree at least two in x and y. We can calculate the Jacobian matrix at 0:

Jg(0,0)=(a1,0a0,1b1,0b0,1).
We see that g is a local diffeomorphism at 0 if, and only if,

a1,0b0,1−a0,1b1,0≠0,
i.e. the linear terms in the components of g are linearly independent as polynomials.

* Let

h(x,y)=(sin⁡(x2+y2),cos⁡(x2+y2)).
We can calculate the Jacobian matrix:

Jh=(2xcos⁡(x2+y2)2ycos⁡(x2+y2)−2xsin⁡(x2+y2)−2ysin⁡(x2+y2)).
The Jacobian matrix has zero determinant everywhere! In fact we see that the image of h is the unit circle.

### Surface deformations

In mechanics, a stress-induced transformation is called a deformation and may be described by a diffeomorphism. A diffeomorphism f:U->V between two surfaces U and V has a Jacobian matrix Df that is an invertible matrix. In fact, it is required that for p in U, there is a neighborhood of p in which the Jacobian Df stays non-singular. Suppose that in a chart of the surface, f(x,y)=(u,v).

The total differential of u is

du=∂u∂xdx+∂u∂ydy, and similarly for v.

Then the image (du,dv)=(dx,dy)Df is a linear transformation, fixing the origin, and expressible as the action of a complex number of a particular type. When (dx, dy) is also interpreted as that type of complex number, the action is of complex multiplication in the appropriate complex number plane. As such, there is a type of angle (Euclidean, hyperbolic, or slope) that is preserved in such a multiplication. Due to Df being invertible, the type of complex number is uniform over the surface. Consequently, a surface deformation or diffeomorphism of surfaces has the conformal property of preserving (the appropriate type of) angles.

## Diffeomorphism group

Let M be a differentiable manifold that is second-countable and Hausdorff. The diffeomorphism group of M is the group of all Cr diffeomorphisms of M to itself, denoted by Diffr(M) or, when r is understood, Diff(M). This is a "large" group, in the sense that—provided M is not zero-dimensional—it is not locally compact.

### Topology

The diffeomorphism group has two natural topologies: weak and strong (Hirsch 1997). When the manifold is compact, these two topologies agree. The weak topology is always metrizable. When the manifold is not compact, the strong topology captures the behavior of functions "at infinity" and is not metrizable. It is, however, still Baire.

Fixing a Riemannian metric on M, the weak topology is the topology induced by the family of metrics

dK(f,g)=sup⁡x∈Kd(f(x),g(x))+∑1≤p≤rsup⁡x∈K‖Dpf(x)−Dpg(x)‖

as K varies over compact subsets of M. Indeed, since M is σ-compact, there is a sequence of compact subsets Kn whose union is M. Then:

d(f,g)=∑n2−ndKn(f,g)1+dKn(f,g).

The diffeomorphism group equipped with its weak topology is locally homeomorphic to the space of Cr vector fields (Leslie 1967). Over a compact subset of M, this follows by fixing a Riemannian metric on M and using the exponential map for that metric. If r is finite and the manifold is compact, the space of vector fields is a Banach space. Moreover, the transition maps from one chart of this atlas to another are smooth, making the diffeomorphism group into a Banach manifold with smooth right translations; left translations and inversion are only continuous. If r=∞, the space of vector fields is a Fréchet space. Moreover, the transition maps are smooth, making the diffeomorphism group into a Fréchet manifold and even into a regular Fréchet Lie group. If the manifold is σ-compact and not compact the full diffeomorphism group is not locally contractible for any of the two topologies. One has to restrict the group by controlling the deviation from the identity near infinity to obtain a diffeomorphism group which is a manifold; see (Michor Mumford).

### Lie algebra

The Lie algebra of the diffeomorphism group of M consists of all vector fields on M equipped with the Lie bracket of vector fields. Somewhat formally, this is seen by making a small change to the coordinate x at each point in space:

xμ↦xμ+εhμ(x)

so the infinitesimal generators are the vector fields

Lh=hμ(x)∂∂xμ.

### Examples

* When M=G is a Lie group, there is a natural inclusion of G in its own diffeomorphism group via left-translation. Let Diff(G) denote the diffeomorphism group of G, then there is a splitting Diff(G)≃G×Diff(G,e), where Diff(G,e) is the subgroup of Diff(G) that fixes the identity element of the group.
* The diffeomorphism group of Euclidean space ℝn consists of two components, consisting of the orientation-preserving and orientation-reversing diffeomorphisms. In fact, the general linear group is a deformation retract of the subgroup Diff(ℝn,0) of diffeomorphisms fixing the origin under the map f(x)->f(tx)/t,t∈(0,1]. In particular, the general linear group is also a deformation retract of the full diffeomorphism group.
* For a finite set of points, the diffeomorphism group is simply the symmetric group. Similarly, if M is any manifold there is a group extension 0->Diff0(M)->Diff(M)->Σ(π0(M)). Here Diff0(M) is the subgroup of Diff(M) that preserves all the components of M, and Σ(π0(M)) is the permutation group of the set π0(M) (the components of M). Moreover, the image of the map Diff(M)->Σ(π0(M)) is the bijections of π0(M) that preserve diffeomorphism classes.

### Transitivity

For a connected manifold M, the diffeomorphism group acts transitively on M. More generally, the diffeomorphism group acts transitively on the configuration space CkM. If M is at least two-dimensional, the diffeomorphism group acts transitively on the configuration space FkM and the action on M is multiply transitive (Banyaga 1997).

### Extensions of diffeomorphisms

In 1926, Tibor Radó asked whether the harmonic extension of any homeomorphism or diffeomorphism of the unit circle to the unit disc yields a diffeomorphism on the open disc. An elegant proof was provided shortly afterwards by Hellmuth Kneser. In 1945, Gustave Choquet, apparently unaware of this result, produced a completely different proof.

The (orientation-preserving) diffeomorphism group of the circle is pathwise connected. This can be seen by noting that any such diffeomorphism can be lifted to a diffeomorphism f of the reals satisfying [f(x+1)=f(x)+1]; this space is convex and hence path-connected. A smooth, eventually constant path to the identity gives a second more elementary way of extending a diffeomorphism from the circle to the open unit disc (a special case of the Alexander trick). Moreover, the diffeomorphism group of the circle has the homotopy-type of the orthogonal group O(2).

The corresponding extension problem for diffeomorphisms of higher-dimensional spheres Sn−1 was much studied in the 1950s and 1960s, with notable contributions from René Thom, John Milnor and Stephen Smale. An obstruction to such extensions is given by the finite abelian group Γn, the "group of twisted spheres", defined as the quotient of the abelian component group of the diffeomorphism group by the subgroup of classes extending to diffeomorphisms of the ball Bn.

### Connectedness

For manifolds, the diffeomorphism group is usually not connected. Its component group is called the mapping class group. In dimension 2 (i.e. surfaces), the mapping class group is a finitely presented group generated by Dehn twists; this has been proved by Max Dehn, W. B. R. Lickorish, and Allen Hatcher).[citation needed] Max Dehn and Jakob Nielsen showed that it can be identified with the outer automorphism group of the fundamental group of the surface.

William Thurston refined this analysis by classifying elements of the mapping class group into three types: those equivalent to a periodic diffeomorphism; those equivalent to a diffeomorphism leaving a simple closed curve invariant; and those equivalent to pseudo-Anosov diffeomorphisms. In the case of the torus S1×S1=ℝ2/ℤ2, the mapping class group is simply the modular group SL(2,ℤ) and the classification becomes classical in terms of elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic matrices. Thurston accomplished his classification by observing that the mapping class group acted naturally on a compactification of Teichmüller space; as this enlarged space was homeomorphic to a closed ball, the Brouwer fixed-point theorem became applicable. Smale conjectured that if M is an oriented smooth closed manifold, the identity component of the group of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms is simple. This had first been proved for a product of circles by Michel Herman; it was proved in full generality by Thurston.

### Homotopy types

* The diffeomorphism group of S2 has the homotopy-type of the subgroup O(3). This was proven by Steve Smale.[2]
* The diffeomorphism group of the torus has the homotopy-type of its linear automorphisms: S1×S1×GL(2,ℤ).
* The diffeomorphism groups of orientable surfaces of genus g>1 have the homotopy-type of their mapping class groups (i.e. the components are contractible).
* The homotopy-type of the diffeomorphism groups of 3-manifolds are fairly well understood via the work of Ivanov, Hatcher, Gabai and Rubinstein, although there are a few outstanding open cases (primarily 3-manifolds with finite fundamental groups).
* The homotopy-type of diffeomorphism groups of n-manifolds for n>3 are poorly understood. For example, it is an open problem whether or not Diff(S4) has more than two components. Via Milnor, Kahn and Antonelli, however, it is known that provided n>6, Diff(Sn) does not have the homotopy-type of a finite CW-complex.

## Homeomorphism and diffeomorphism

Since every diffeomorphism is a homeomorphism, given a pair of manifolds which are diffeomorphic to each other they are in particular homeomorphic to each other. The converse is not true in general.

While it is easy to find homeomorphisms that are not diffeomorphisms, it is more difficult to find a pair of homeomorphic manifolds that are not diffeomorphic. In dimensions 1, 2 and 3, any pair of homeomorphic smooth manifolds are diffeomorphic. In dimension 4 or greater, examples of homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic pairs exist. The first such example was constructed by John Milnor in dimension 7. He constructed a smooth 7-dimensional manifold (called now Milnor's sphere) that is homeomorphic to the standard 7-sphere but not diffeomorphic to it. There are, in fact, 28 oriented diffeomorphism classes of manifolds homeomorphic to the 7-sphere (each of them is the total space of a fiber bundle over the 4-sphere with the 3-sphere as the fiber).

More unusual phenomena occur for 4-manifolds. In the early 1980s, a combination of results due to Simon Donaldson and Michael Freedman led to the discovery of exotic ℝ4: there are uncountably many pairwise non-diffeomorphic open subsets of ℝ4 each of which is homeomorphic to ℝ4, and also there are uncountably many pairwise non-diffeomorphic differentiable manifolds homeomorphic to ℝ4 that do not embed smoothly in ℝ4.

## See also

* Anosov diffeomorphism such as Arnold's cat map
* Diffeo anomaly also known as a gravitational anomaly, a type anomaly in quantum mechanics
* Diffeology, smooth parameterizations on a set, which makes a diffeological space
* Diffeomorphometry, metric study of shape and form in computational anatomy
* Étale morphism
* Large diffeomorphism
* Local diffeomorphism
* Superdiffeomorphism

## Notes

1. ↑ Steven G. Krantz; Harold R. Parks (2013). The implicit function theorem: history, theory, and applications. Springer. p. Theorem 6.2.4. ISBN 978-1-4614-5980-4.
2. ↑ Smale (1959). "Diffeomorphisms of the 2-sphere". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 10 (4): 621–626. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1959-0112149-8.

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