陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Notes on the Nash embedding theorem」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

Throughout this post we shall always work in the smooth category, thus all manifolds, maps, coordinate charts, and functions are assumed to be smooth unless explicitly stated otherwise.

A (real) manifold can be defined in at least two ways. On one hand, one can define the manifold extrinsically , as a subset of some standard space such as a Euclidean space . On the other hand, one can define the manifold intrinsically , as a topological space equipped with an atlas of coordinate charts. The fundamental embedding theorems show that, under reasonable assumptions, the intrinsic and extrinsic approaches give the same classes of manifolds (up to isomorphism in va

已知结果和反例

Theorem 1 (Whitney embedding theorem) Let be a compact manifold. Then there exists an embedding from to a Euclidean space .

In fact, if is -dimensional, one can take to equal , which is often best possible (easy examples include the circle which embeds into but not , or the Klein bottle that embeds into but not ). One can also relax the compactness hypothesis on to second countability, but 下面会 not pursue this extension here. We give a “cheap” proof of this theorem below the fold which allows one to take equal to .

证明或构造的主线

A significant strengthening of the Whitney embedding theorem is (a special case of) the Nash embedding theorem :

Theorem 2 (Nash embedding theorem) Let be a compact Riemannian manifold. Then there exists a isometric embedding from to a Euclidean space .

阅读时建议盯住的点

In order to obtain the isometric embedding, the dimension has to be a bit larger than what is needed for the Whitney embedding theorem; in this article of Gunther the bound

is attained, which I believe is still the record for large . (In the converse direction, one cannot do better than , basically because this is the number of degrees of freedom in the Riemannian metric .) Nash’s original proof of theorem used what is now known as Nash-Moser inverse function theorem , but a subsequent simplification of Gunther allowed one to proceed using just the ordinary inverse function theorem (in Banach spaces).

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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