Department of Mathematics, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
Abstract:
Let the cardinal invariant denote the least number of continuously smooth -dimensional surfaces into which -dimensional Euclidean space can be decomposed. It will be shown to be consistent that is greater than . These cardinals will be shown to be closely related to the invariants associated with the problem of decomposing continuous functions into differentiable ones.