# HG changeset patch # User Kevin Walker # Date 1278990494 21600 # Node ID 785e4953a81129d1cb9d844897e993f7102b6b87 # Parent c5a35886cd8234c504e47ddc7b38c4ee82448ba9 minor evmap stuff diff -r c5a35886cd82 -r 785e4953a811 text/evmap.tex --- a/text/evmap.tex Mon Jul 12 17:29:25 2010 -0600 +++ b/text/evmap.tex Mon Jul 12 21:08:14 2010 -0600 @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ Now for a little more detail. (But we're still just motivating the full, gory details, which will follow.) -Choose a metric on $X$, and let $\cU_\gamma$ be the open cover of balls of radius $\gamma$. +Choose a metric on $X$, and let $\cU_\gamma$ be the open cover of $X$ by balls of radius $\gamma$. By Lemma \ref{extension_lemma} we can restrict our attention to $k$-parameter families $p$ of homeomorphisms such that $\supp(p)$ is contained in the union of $k$ $\gamma$-balls. For fixed blob diagram $b$ and fixed $k$, it's not hard to show that for $\gamma$ small enough @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ We'll use the notation $|b| = \supp(b)$ and $|p| = \supp(p)$. Choose a metric on $X$. -Choose a monotone decreasing sequence of positive real numbers $\ep_i$ converging monotonically to zero +Choose a monotone decreasing sequence of positive real numbers $\ep_i$ converging to zero (e.g.\ $\ep_i = 2^{-i}$). Choose another sequence of positive real numbers $\delta_i$ such that $\delta_i/\ep_i$ converges monotonically to zero (e.g.\ $\delta_i = \ep_i^2$). @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ is homeomorphic to a disjoint union of balls and \[ N_{i,k}(p\ot b) \subeq V_0 \subeq N_{i,k+1}(p\ot b) - \subeq V_1 \subeq \cdots \subeq V_m \subeq N_{i,k+m+1}(p\ot b) . + \subeq V_1 \subeq \cdots \subeq V_m \subeq N_{i,k+m+1}(p\ot b) , \] and further $\bd(p\ot b) \in G_*^{i,m}$. We also require that $b$ is splitable (transverse) along the boundary of each $V_l$. @@ -345,7 +345,8 @@ \begin{proof} There exists $\lambda > 0$ such that for every subset $c$ of the blobs of $b$ $\Nbd_u(c)$ is homeomorphic to $|c|$ for all $u < \lambda$ . -(Here we are using the fact that the blobs are piecewise-linear and thatthat $\bd c$ is collared.) +(Here we are using the fact that the blobs are +piecewise smooth or piecewise-linear and that $\bd c$ is collared.) We need to consider all such $c$ because all generators appearing in iterated boundaries of $p\ot b$ must be in $G_*^{i,m}$.)