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This ebook by means of Jakob Nielsen (1890-1959) and Werner Fenchel (1905-1988) has had
a lengthy and complex historical past. In 1938-39, Nielsen gave a chain of lectures on
discontinuous teams of motions within the non-euclidean aircraft, and this led him - in the course of
World struggle II - to write down the 1st chapters of the booklet (in German). whilst Fenchel,
who needed to break out from Denmark to Sweden as a result German career,
returned in 1945, Nielsen initiated a collaboration with him on what grew to become recognized
as the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript. at the moment they have been either on the Technical
University in Copenhagen. the 1st draft of the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript (now
in English) used to be complete in 1948 and it was once deliberate to be released within the Princeton
Mathematical sequence. even though, because of the quick improvement of the topic, they felt
that giant alterations needed to be made ahead of ebook.
When Nielsen moved to Copenhagen collage in 1951 (where he stayed until eventually
1955), he was once a lot concerned with the foreign association UNESCO, and the
further writing of the manuscript used to be left to Fenchel. The documents of Fenchel now
deposited and catalogued on the division of arithmetic at Copenhagen Univer-
sity include unique manuscripts: a partial manuscript (manuscript zero) in Ger-
man containing Chapters I-II (
I -15), and a whole manuscript (manuscript I) in
English containing Chapters I-V (
1-27). The documents additionally include a part of a corre-
spondence (first in German yet later in Danish) among Nielsen and Fenchel, the place
Nielsen makes certain reviews to Fenchel's writings of Chapters III-V. Fenchel,
who succeeded N. E. Nf/Jrlund at Copenhagen collage in 1956 (and stayed there
until 1974), used to be greatly concerned with an intensive revision of the curriculum in al-
gebra and geometry, and targeted his study within the concept of convexity, heading
the foreign Colloquium on Convexity in Copenhagen 1965. for nearly twenty years
he additionally placed a lot attempt into his activity as editor of the newly all started magazine Mathematica
Scandinavica. a lot to his dissatisfaction, this job left him little time to complete the
Fenchel-Nielsen venture the best way he desired to.
After his retirement from the college, Fenchel - assisted by way of Christian Sieben-
eicher from Bielefeld and Mrs. Obershelp who typed the manuscript - discovered time to
finish the e-book common Geometry in Hyperbolic house, which was once released via
Walter de Gruyter in 1989 almost immediately after his demise. concurrently, and with an identical
collaborators, he supervised a typewritten model of the manuscript (manuscript 2) on
discontinuous teams, removal some of the vague issues that have been within the unique
manuscript. Fenchel advised me that he reflected removal components of the introductory
Chapter I within the manuscript, considering that this may be lined via the booklet pointed out above;
but to make the Fenchel-Nielsen e-book self-contained he finally selected to not do
so. He did choose to omit
27, entitled Thefundamental workforce.
As editor, i began in 1990, with the consent of the criminal heirs of Fenchel and
Nielsen, to provide a TEX-version from the newly typewritten model (manuscript 2).
I am thankful to Dita Andersen and Lise Fuldby-Olsen in my division for hav-
ing performed a superb activity of typing this manuscript in AMS- TEX. i've got additionally had
much support from my colleague J0rn B0rling Olsson (himself a scholar of Kate Fenchel
at Aarhus collage) with the evidence studying of the TEX-manuscript (manuscript three)
against manuscript 2 in addition to with a normal dialogue of the variation to the fashion
of TEX. In such a lot respects we made up our minds to stick with Fenchel's intentions. besides the fact that, turning
the typewritten version of the manuscript into TEX helped us to make sure that the notation,
and the spelling of yes key-words, will be uniform during the publication. additionally,
we have indicated the start and finish of an evidence within the traditional form of TEX.
With this TEX -manuscript I approached Walter de Gruyter in Berlin in 1992, and
to my nice reduction and pride they agreed to submit the manuscript of their sequence
Studies in arithmetic. i'm such a lot thankful for this confident and quickly response. One
particular challenge with the book grew to become out to be the replica of the numerous
figures that are an essential component of the presentation. Christian Siebeneicher had at
first agreed to convey those in ultimate digital shape, yet through 1997 it turned transparent that he
would no longer be ready to locate the time to take action. even though, the writer provided an answer
whereby I may still carry distinct drawings of the figures (Fenchel didn't go away such
for Chapters IV and V), after which they might set up the construction of the figures in
electronic shape. i'm very thankful to Marcin Adamski, Warsaw, Poland, for his tremendous
collaboration in regards to the genuine construction of the figures.
My colleague Bent Fuglede, who has personaHy recognized either authors, has kindly
written a quick biography of the 2 of them and their mathematical achievements,
and which additionally areas the Fenchel-Nielsen manuscript in its right standpoint. In
this connection i need to thank The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and
Letters for permitting us to incorporate during this booklet reproductions of photos of the 2
authors that are within the ownership of the Academy.
Since the manuscript makes use of a couple of exact symbols, an inventory of notation with brief
explanations and connection with the particular definition within the ebook has been integrated. additionally,
a entire index has been additional. In either circumstances, all references are to sections,
not pages.
We thought of including a whole checklist of references, yet determined opposed to it because of
the overwhelming variety of examine papers during this quarter. in its place, a far shorter
list of monographs and different finished bills proper to the topic has been
collected.
My ultimate and such a lot honest thank you visit Dr. Manfred Karbe from Walter de Gruyter
for his commitment and perseverance in bringing this booklet into lifestyles.
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W xn = φ That is, W ∩ W x1 ∩ . . ∩ W xn ⊂ U Thus, the open set V = W ∩ W x1 ∩ . . ∩ W xn 39 Paul Garrett: Functions on circles (April 21, 2006) meets the requirements. Using the possibility of inserting an open subset and its closure between any K ⊂ U with K compact and U open, we will inductively create opens Vr (with compact closures) indexed by rational numbers r in the interval 0 ≤ r ≤ 1 such that, for r > s, we have the relation K ⊂ Vr ⊂ V r ⊂ Vs ⊂ V s ⊂ U From any such configuration of opens we will construct the desired sort of continuous function f by f (x) = sup{r rational in [0, 1] : x ∈ Vr , } = inf{r rational in [0, 1] : x ∈ V r , } It is not completely immediate that this sup and inf are the same, but if we grant their equality then we can prove the continuity of this function f (x).
The proofs of associativity of vector addition, associativity of scalar multiplication, and distributivity, use the same idea. Thus, products of topological vector spaces exist. We should not forget to prove note this product is Hausdorff, since we implicitly require this of topological vector spaces! But this is immediate, since a (topological space) product of Hausdorff spaces is readily shown to be Hausdorff. Consider now the case that each Vi is locally convex. By definition of the product topology, every neighborhood of 0 in the product is of the form Πi Ui where Ui is a neighborhood of 0 in Vi , and all but finitely many of the Ui are actually the whole Vi .
But r > s implies that Vr ⊂ V s , so this cannot happen. If g(x) > f (x), then there are rationals r > s such that g(x) > r > s > f (x) Then s > f (x) implies that x ∈ Vs , and r < g(x) implies x ∈ V r . But Vr ⊂ V s , contradiction. Thus, f (x) = g(x). /// Corollary: Let X be a topological space with a regular Borel measure µ. Then Co c (X) is dense in L2 (X, µ). Proof: The regularity of the measure is the property that µ(E) is both the sup of µ(K) for compacts K ⊂ E, and is the inf of µ(U ) for opens U ⊃ E.