4 ms·
A hypersurface is usually a codimension one object, while a manifold can have bigger codimension or even not be embedded in an higher dimensional space at all
by ginnungagap 8y ago
A hypersurface is usually a codimension one object, while a manifold can have bigger codimension or even not be embedded in an higher dimensional space at all
- amai 8y agoOk, a line in 3D space can also be called a manifold? Maybe a better question is then to ask, what is not a manifold?