网页Definition 1.3. A smooth n-dimensional manifold is a Hausdorff, second count-able, topological space X together with an atlas, A. 1.1 examples Rn or any open subset of Rn is a smooth manifold with an atlas consisting of one chart. The unit sphere Sn = {(x0,x1,...,xn)| Xn i=0 (xi)2 = 1}