Singular fibers of stable maps of 3-manifolds with boundary into surfaces and their applications (Q2630669)

The concept of singular fibers of \(C^\infty\) maps between manifolds without boundary was introduced by the first author in [Topology of singular fibers of differentiable maps. Berlin: Springer (2004; Zbl 1072.57023)], where he also gave classifications of singular fibers of stable maps \(M\to N\) for manifolds of small dimensions. In the paper under review, the authors study singular fibers of proper \(C^\infty\) stable maps of 3-dimensional manifolds with boundary into surfaces without boundary. Among other things, they compute the cohomology groups of the associated universal complex of singular fibers and obtain certain cobordism invariants for Morse functions on compact surfaces with boundary.