Singularities, expanders and topology of maps. I: Homology versus volume in the spaces of cycles (Q1047127): Difference between revisions

This very interesting paper is devoted to finding lower bounds on the topological complexity of the critical values set \(\Sigma (F)\subset Y\) of generic smooth maps \(F:X\rightarrow Y\), as well as on the complexity of the fibers \(F^{-1}(y)\subset X\) in terms of the topology of the manifolds \(X\) and \(Y\). The paper is organized into six sections as follows: 1. Corollaries and Background; 2. Homological Lower Bounds on \(\Sigma (F)\) and the Fibers of Maps \(F\); 3. Lower Bounds on the Fold Maximal Self-Crossing Number \(N_m\) by Simplicial Volume; 4. p.l.- Families of Point/Edge Singular Surfaces and Minimal Maps; 5. Morse Spectra in the Spaces of Cycles and the Lower Bounds on min-area; 6. Isoperimetry and the Spectrum. We mention here only two results presented in the paper. Let \(F:X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2\) be a generic (\(C^{\infty}\)-stable) smooth map, such that the restriction of \(F\) to the (\(1\)-dimensional) singularity \(\widehat{\Sigma}\subset X\) of \(F\) is an immersion. Then the number \(N_2 =N_2 (\Sigma)\) of the self-crossings (double points) of the critical set \(\Sigma =\Sigma(F)= F(\widehat{\Sigma})\subset \mathbb{R}^2\) satisfies the inequality \[ N_2 (\Sigma)\geq \tfrac{1}{2}|H_{*}(X)|_{\mathbb{F}} -N_{\text{comp}}(\Sigma), \] where \(N_{\text{comp}}(\Sigma)\) denotes the number of connected components of \(\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^2\) (Section 2.1). The main result of Section 2.2 is the following: If \(X\) is the Cartesian product of two connected manifolds, \(X=X_{1}\times X_{2}\), and \(F:X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^2\) is a generic smooth map, then the depth of the critical set \(\Sigma \subset \mathbb{R}^2\) of \(F\) satisfies \[ \text{dep}(\Sigma)\geq \tfrac{1}{6}\min(|H_{*}(X_1 )|_{\mathbb{F}},|H_{*}(X_2 )|_{\mathbb{F}}). \] The number dep\((\Sigma)\) is defined in subsection 1.2. The paper also contains many open questions and an useful bibliography consisting of \(53\) relevant references for the topic.