A  (infinitely differentiable) manifold is said to be a submanifold of a 
 manifold 
 if 
 is a subset of 
 and the identity map of
 
 into 
 is an embedding.
Submanifold
See also
Embedding, Manifold, Subfield, SubspaceExplore with Wolfram|Alpha
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Weisstein, Eric W. "Submanifold." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Submanifold.html