# Boundary points of a manifold

I'm reading about Riemannian Geometry and my question is regarding Manifolds with Boundary.

I want to show a point of a manifold with boundary is either an interior point or a boundary point, so no overlap.

Let $\mathbb{H}_n$ be the closed half space of dimension n. In order to prove the above my aim is to show an open neighborhood U of a point p, in $\mathbb{H}_n$\ $\partial \mathbb{H}_n$ can't be homeomorphic to an open subset U of $\mathbb{H}_n$ when we identify p with a point in $\partial \mathbb{H}_n$.

How should I proceed?

• You should proceed to find some property that one of the has and the other does not. – Mariano Suárez-Álvarez Dec 23 '14 at 22:00
• Right, but I'm having difficulty finding a mutually exclusive event. – Mary Dec 23 '14 at 22:03
• Think about the topology on $\mathbb{H}^n$, and how it relates to the topology on $\mathbb{R}^n$. – Ashwin Iyengar Dec 23 '14 at 22:04
• Also, you should prove that "being on the boundary" is a property independent of choice of local coordinates --- the inverse function theorem is useful. – Ashwin Iyengar Dec 23 '14 at 22:06
• That last part I think I can handle. Can you show me how to answer my original question? I would appreciate it. – Mary Dec 23 '14 at 22:13

Interior and boundary points of $n$-manifold with boundary