COMPUTABLE STRUCTURES ON TOPOLOGICAL MANIFOLDS MARCELO A. AGUILAR AND RODOLFO CONDE Instituto de Matem´aticas, Universidad Nacional Aut´onoma de M´exico, Ciudad Universitaria, M´exico D.F. 04510, M´exico e-mail address:
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[email protected] Abstract. We propose a definition of computable manifold by introducing computabil- ity as a structure that we impose to a given topological manifold, just in the same way as differentiability or piecewise linearity are defined for smooth and PL manifolds respec- tively. Using the framework of computable topology and Type-2 theory of effectivity, we develop computable versions of all the basic concepts needed to define manifolds, like com- putable atlases and (computably) compatible computable atlases. We prove that given a computable atlas Φ defined on a set M, we can construct a computable topological space (M,τΦ, βΦ,νΦ), where τΦ is the topology on M induced by Φ and that the equivalence class of this computable space characterizes the computable structure determined by Φ. The concept of computable submanifold is also investigated. We show that any compact computable manifold which satisfies a computable version of the T2-separation axiom, can be embedded as a computable submanifold of some euclidean space Rq, with a computable embedding, where Rq is equipped with its usual topology and some canonical computable encoding of all open rational balls. 1. Introduction Computability theory over continuous structures began formally in 1936 with the landmark paper of Alan Turing [1] where he defined the notion of a single computable real number: x ∈ R is computable if its decimal expansion can be calculated in the discrete sense, that arXiv:1703.04075v2 [cs.LO] 14 Mar 2017 is, output by a Turing machine.