B1.8

Differentiable Manifolds
Part II, 2002

What is meant by a "bump function" on Rn\mathbb{R}^{n} ? If UU is an open subset of a manifold MM, prove that there is a bump function on MM with support contained in UU.

Prove the following.

(i) Given an open covering U\mathcal{U} of a compact manifold MM, there is a partition of unity on MM subordinate to U\mathcal{U}.

(ii) Every compact manifold may be embedded in some Euclidean space.