Computable structures on topological manifolds

Abstract

We propose a definition of computable manifold by introducing computability 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 respectively. 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 computable 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 $(M, τ_Φ, β_Φ, ν_Φ)$, where $τ_Φ$ 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 $T_2$-separation axiom, can be embedded as a computable submanifold of some euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{q}$, with a computable embedding, where $\mathbb{R}^{q}$ is equipped with its usual topology and some canonical computable encoding of all open rational balls.