Sard's theorem

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Statement

Suppose and are differential manifolds and is a smooth map between them. Then, the set of regular values of is a subset of measure zero in .

Applications

Suppose and are differential manifolds, and the dimension of is strictly less than the dimension of . Then, if is a smooth map, the image has measure zero as a subset of . In particular, cannot be surjective.