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In mathematics, a partition of unity of a topological space ''X'' is a set ''R'' of continuous functions from ''X'' to the unit interval () such that for every point, , * there is a neighbourhood of ''x'' where all but a finite number of the functions of ''R'' are 0, and * the sum of all the function values at ''x'' is 1, i.e., . Partitions of unity are useful because they often allow one to extend local constructions to the whole space. They are also important in the interpolation of data, in signal processing, and the theory of spline functions. == Existence == The existence of partitions of unity assumes two distinct forms: # Given any open cover ''i''∈''I'' of a space, there exists a partition ''i''∈''I'' indexed ''over the same set I'' such that supp ρ''i''⊆''U''''i''. Such a partition is said to be subordinate to the open cover ''i''. # Given any open cover ''i''∈''I'' of a space, there exists a partition ''j''∈''J'' indexed over a possibly distinct index set ''J'' such that each ρ''j'' has compact support and for each ''j''∈''J'', supp ρ''j''⊆''U''''i'' for some ''i''∈''I''. Thus one chooses either to have the supports indexed by the open cover, or compact supports. If the space is compact, then there exist partitions satisfying both requirements. A finite open cover always has a continuous partition of unity subordinated to it, provided the space is locally compact and Hausdorff. Paracompactness of the space is a necessary condition to guarantee the existence of a partition of unity subordinate to any open cover. Depending on the category which the space belongs to, it may also be a sufficient condition. The construction uses mollifiers (bump functions), which exist in continuous and smooth manifolds, but not in analytic manifolds. Thus for an open cover of an analytic manifold, an analytic partition of unity subordinate to that open cover generally does not exist. ''See'' analytic continuation. If ''R'' and ''S'' are partitions of unity for spaces ''X'' and ''Y'', respectively, then the set of all pairwise products is a partition of unity for the cartesian product space ''X''×''Y''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Partition of unity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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