Prove that a constraints system is a manifold.

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What shown to follow is a theorem taken from the text Analysis on Manifolds written by James Munkres.

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So at the page 11 of this document, if you like you can read the proof of the mentioned theorem.

Now more generally I ask if this result holds.

Conjecture

Let $A$ be open in $\Bbb R^{n+k}$ and let be $f:A\rightarrow\Bbb R^n$ be of class $C^r$. Let $M$ be the set of all $x$ such that $$ f_1(x)=0,...,f_{n-(h+1)}(x)=0,f_{n-h}(x)>0,...,f_{n-i}(x)=0,....,f_n(x)>0 $$ for any $i=1,...,h$ and assume that $M$ is not empty and that $Df$ has rank $(n-h)$ on $M$. Then $M$ is a $k+h$ manifold without boundary in $\Bbb R^{n+k}$. Furthermore if $N$ is the set of all $x$ for which $$ f_1(x)=0,...,f_{n-(h+1)}(x)=0,f_{n-h}(x)\ge 0,...,f_n(x)\ge 0 $$ and if the $Df$ has rank $n+(h-1)$ at each poin of $N$, then $N$ is a $k+(h+1)$ manifold and $\partial N=M$.

So substantially I ask when the solutions set of the constraint system $$ \begin{cases}f_1(x)=0\\ \vdots\\ f_{n-(h+1)}(x)=0\\ f_{n-h}(x)\ge 0\\ \vdots\\ f_n(x)\ge 0\end{cases} $$ is a $k+(h+1)$ manifold.

So is my conjecture true? And if it is true how prove it?