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What is submanifold with boundary?

Definition 21.21 University Mathematics — Year 3 · Chapter 21 — Differential Forms and Stokes’ Theorem

A kk-submanifold with boundary M⊆RnM \subseteq \R^n is a set covered by regular parametrizations of two kinds: interior charts γ ⁣:V→M∩W\gamma\colon V \to M \cap W with V⊆RkV \subseteq \R^k open, and boundary charts γ ⁣:V∩Hk→M∩W\gamma\colon V \cap H^k \to M \cap W, where Hk={u∈Rk:uk≥0}H^k = \{u \in \R^k : u_k \geq 0\} and γ\gamma extends smoothly and regularly to the open VV. The boundary ∂M\partial M is the set of points reached at uk=0u_k = 0; it is a (k−1)(k-1)-submanifold without boundary, parametrized by the maps u′↦γ(u′,0)u' \mapsto \gamma(u', 0). An orientation of MM induces one on ∂M\partial M by the outward-normal-first rule: at p∈∂Mp \in \partial M, a basis (w1,…,wk−1)(w_1, \dots, w_{k-1}) of Tp∂MT_p\partial M is positive iff (ν,w1,…,wk−1)(\nu, w_1, \dots, w_{k-1}) is a positive basis of TpMT_pM, where ν∈TpM∖Tp∂M\nu \in T_pM \setminus T_p\partial M points out of MM (in a boundary chart: ν=−∂kγ\nu = -\partial_k\gamma, up to adding tangential components — the orientation class does not see them).

The outward-normal-first rule: at each boundary point, put the outward vector  first; the bases that complete it to a positive frame of M orient M. For a plane domain with the standard orientation this is the counterclockwise rule of Green–Riemann.
The outward-normal-first rule: at each boundary point, put the outward vector ν\nu first; the bases that complete it to a positive frame of MM orient ∂M\partial M. For a plane domain with the standard orientation this is the counterclockwise rule of Green–Riemann.

Examples

Example 21.24 (The classical theorems)

Let D⊆R2D \subseteq \R^2 be a compact domain with smooth boundary, standardly oriented. For ω=P  ⁣dx+Q  ⁣dy\omega = P\,\dd x + Q\,\dd y:  ⁣dω=(∂xQ−∂yP) ⁣dx∧ ⁣dy\dd\omega = \bigl(\partial_xQ - \partial_yP\bigr)\dd x\wedge\dd y, and Stokes reads

∫D(∂Q∂x−∂P∂y) ⁣dx  ⁣dy=∮∂DP  ⁣dx+Q  ⁣dy:\int_D\Bigl(\frac{\partial Q}{\partial x} - \frac{\partial P}{\partial y}\Bigr)\dd x\,\dd y = \oint_{\partial D}P\,\dd x + Q\,\dd y :

Green–Riemann, proved for elementary domains in the Year 2 volume and now in natural generality. In R3\R^3, Stokes applied to the flux 22-form of a vector field on a compact domain gives the divergence theorem ∫Ωdiv⁡F=∫∂Ω⟨F,ν⟩  ⁣dS\int_\Omega\operatorname{div}F = \int_{\partial\Omega}\langle F, \nu\rangle\,\dd S, and applied to a 11-form on a surface-with-boundary, the classical Kelvin–Stokes curl theorem; Exercise 21.7 spells out both dictionaries.

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