Whitney embedding theorem

cosmos 24th September 2017 at 3:52pm
Embedding

Can every n-dimensional manifold be embedded in some Euclidean space?the answer is Yes, but the dimensionality of the Euclidean space may have to be 2n+12n+1 for an nn-dimensional manifold. E.g., any 2d-dim manifold can be embedded in R5\mathbb{R}^5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_embedding_theorem