Manifold Atlas:TeX in the Atlas

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1 LaTeX formulas

The <wikitex> environment lets you to insert inline LaTeX formulas using the familiar dollar signs: all atlas articles begin and end with the <wikitex> tags. For example

<wikitex>;
... there is a diffeomorphism $f \co M^n_a \cong M^n_b$ ...
</wikitex>

will appear as:

there is a diffeomorphism f \co M^n_a \cong M^n_b

Please read the style guide for Latex conventions in the atlas and command shortcuts.

Finally note that the normal <math> tags are disabled so that there is a unique method for math markup.

1.1 Displayed formulas

Displayed formulas can be obtained by double-dollars $$...$$. You can get tags at the right margin by the command \eqno{...} within a displayed formula. There is no automatic numbering available, so please number your formulas by hand, if necessary.

Multiline formulas can be obtained by the AMS-LaTeX environments “gathered”, “aligned” and “alignedat”. For example,

<wikitex>;
$$
  \begin{aligned}
    H^k(K(G,k);H) &\cong \Hom(H_k(K(G,k);H) \\
                  &\cong \Hom(G,H).
  \end{aligned}
$$
</wikitex>

yields

\displaystyle    \begin{aligned}     H^k(K(G,k);H) &\cong \Hom(H_k(K(G,k),H) \\                   &\cong \Hom(G,H).   \end{aligned}

2 Theorems, proofs and such

The Atlas has a single theorem-like environment {{beginthm|par1|par2}} and {{endthm}}. The first parameter contains the name of the statement. The second parameter is optional and contains any additions to the theorem heading. For example:

Conjecture 2.1 (Novikov). The higher signatures are homotopy invariants.

is generated by the code

{{beginthm|Conjecture|(Novikov)}}
The higher signatures are homotopy invariants.
{{endthm}}

There is also a single proof environment {{beginproof}} and {{endproof}}. For example

Proof. The proof follows from ... .

\square

is generated by the code

{{beginproof}} 
The proof follows from ... .
{{endproof}}

3 Intra-article referencing

You can label Theorems, Lemmas etc and refer to them just as you would in tex. Here is an example:

{{beginthm|Conjecture|[Borel Conjecture]}} '''\label{con:Borel_Conjecture}'''
Every aspherical closed manifold is topologically rigid.
{{endthm}}
In particular the Borel Conjecture '''\ref{con:Borel_Conjecture}''' implies ...

Produces the output:

Conjecture 3.1 [Borel Conjecture].

Every aspherical closed manifold is topologically rigid.

In particular the Borel Conjecture 3.1 implies ... .

Note that the following text can also be used:

  • <label>label_name</label> in place of \label{label_name}
  • </wikitex><ref>label_name</ref><wikitex>; in place of \ref{label_name}

4 Diagrams

The Atlas supports the diagram package Xy-pic. So making diagrams with xy-pic in the Atlas works just as it would in a usual TeX file: make sure you are in math-mode. Here are a couple examples from the Atlas:

Further information is available from:

5 Lists

Lists are easily produced.

  • Just use \ast for each item.
    • To creata a sub-list, use \ast \ast.
  • If you want to number the list you can use # .
  • For more information see lists in Wikipedia.

6 LaTeX style guide

  • Shortcuts for blackboard bold capital letters are available: for example type $\Cc,\Qq,\Rr$ for \Cc,\Qq,\Rr.
  • Expressions consisting of more than one letter should usually not be written: For example, $Diff(M)$ since this results in the cumbersome: Diff(M). A TeX-nically better way is $\mathop{\mathrm{Diff}}(M)$, which yields the elegant rendering \mathop{\mathrm{Diff}}(M). For your convenience, some manifold-related expressions are predefined in the <wikitex> environment, in addition to the standard operators like \sin, \exp etc. Feel free to request more commonly used operators and abbreviations.
code result meaning
\id
Tex syntax error
identity map
\Sq \Sq Steenrod squares
\Homeo \Homeo group of homeomorphisms of a topoloical space
\Diff \Diff group of diffeomorphisms of a smooth manifold
\SDiff \SDiff diffeomorphisms under some constraint
\Hom \Hom homomorphisms of an algebraic structure
\End \End endomorphisms
\Aut \Aut automorphisms
\Inn \Inn inner automorphisms
\Out \Out outer automorphisms
\GL \GL general linear group
\SL \SL special linear group
\SO \SO special orthogonal group
\SU \SU special unitary group
\Spin \Spin Spin group
\RP \RP real projective space
\CP \CP complex projective space
\HP \HP quaternionic projective space
\Top \Top topological category
\PL \PL piecewise linear category
\Cat \Cat any category
\KS \KS Kirby-Siebenmann class
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