Proving sufficient conditions for immersed submanifolds to be embedded

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Should I say anything else to prove the following from Professor Lee's Intro to Smooth Manifolds text? Thank you.

Prove Proposition 5.21 (sufficient conditions for immersed submanifolds to be embedded). Suppose $M$ is a smooth manifold with or without boundary, and $S\subseteq M$ is an immersed submanifold. If any of the following holds, then $S$ is embedded.

(a) $S$ has codimension $0$ in $M.$

(b) The inclusion map $S\subseteq M$ is proper.

(c) S is compact.

$\textit{Proof.}$ If $(a)$ holds then Theorem 4.5 (Inverse Function Theorem for Manifolds) shows that the inclusion map $\iota : S\hookrightarrow M$ is an open map. The result follows from Proposition 4.22 where we suppose $M$ and $N$ are smooth manifolds with or without boundary, and $F: M\to N$ is an injective smooth immersion. If any of the following holds, then $F$ is a smooth embedding.

(a) $F$ is an open or closed map.

(b) $F$ is a proper map.

(c) $M$ is compact.

(d) $M$ has empty boundary and $\dim M = \dim N.$

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The statement is false, at least (c). Take $f : \mathbb{S}^1 \to \mathbb{R}^2$ defined by $f(\cos \theta, \sin \theta) = (\cos \theta, \sin 3\theta)$. This is an immersion, $\mathbb{S}^1$ is compact, but $f$ is not an embedding.