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 December 26th, 2016, 12:21 AM #1 Newbie   Joined: Oct 2016 From: Netherlands Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 k-dim manifold, measure 0 Could someone explain to me why: if M is a k-dim manifold in R^n and k
 December 26th, 2016, 11:58 AM #2 Senior Member   Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,921 Thanks: 534 Step 1. Can you see that the unit circle has measure zero in the plane?
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 Originally Posted by kNiEsSoKk Could someone explain to me why: if M is a k-dim manifold in R^n and k
The proof of this is not exactly easy. However, the intuition is pretty straight forward. It follows these ideas.

1. One sufficient condition for a set to have measure (with respect to $n$ dimensional Lebesgue measure) zero is that you can cover it by a set of arbitrarily small measure. Convince yourself that any $k$ dimesional affine subset of $\mathbb{R}^n$ must have measure zero.

2. An intuitive way of thinking about a manifold is as "locally" Euclidean subset. This means that for any point there is a neighborhood on which the topology is locally homeomorphic to a ball in $\mathbb{R}^n$.

Combining the above 2 ideas should hopefully give you an intuitive idea about why the theorem must be true.

 February 4th, 2017, 04:43 PM #5 Math Team   Joined: Jan 2015 From: Alabama Posts: 3,194 Thanks: 871 The area of a line in 2 dimensional space is 0. The volume of a curve or plane in 3 dimensional space is 0.

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