Neat submanifold

In differential topology, an area of mathematics, a neat submanifold of a manifold with boundary is a kind of "well-behaved" submanifold.

is said to be a neat submanifold of

if it meets the following two conditions:[1] More formally,

must be covered by charts

For instance, in the category of smooth manifolds, this means that the embedding of

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