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Manifold

Geometry and topology

A space in which every point has a neighbourhood resembling ordinary n-dimensional Euclidean space, for one fixed n, and which is Hausdorff and second-countable.

What is usually left out

The fixed dimension matters: a space that is two-dimensional in one region and three-dimensional in another is not a manifold. The two point-set conditions exclude pathologies such as the line with two origins and the long line, which satisfy the local condition and behave nothing like surfaces.

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