Characteristic classes and existence of singular maps

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-2012-05544-9MaRDI QIDQ2839954zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Boldizsár Kalmár, Tamás Terpai

Publication date 17 July 2013

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1297

zbMATH Keywords

blowupcobordismDold relationsfold mapgeometric dimensionMorin mapMorse-Bott mapsingularityStifel-Whitney characteristic class

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) (mathrm{O})- and (mathrm{SO})-cobordism (57R75)

Abstract: We obtain relations among the characteristic classes of a manifold M admitting corank one maps. Our relations yield strong restrictions on the cobordism class of M and also nonexistence results for singular maps of the projective spaces. We obtain our results through blowing up a manifold along the singular set of a smooth map and perturbing the arising non-generic corank one map.

Review text

The results of this paper concern topological consequences for the source manifold of the existence of a corank one map of negative codimension. The authors obtain many interesting results in this direction of the following type (Theorem 1.1): Let \(M\) be an \(n\)-dimensional orientable closed manifold admitting a Morin map \(f : M^n \rightarrow S^{n-k}\) into the \((n-k)\)-sphere, where \(k\) is odd. Then for any pair of multiindices \(R=(r_1,\cdots, r_m)\) and \(S=(s_1,\cdots, s_m)\) of any equal length \(m\) and equal degree \(\sum_{j=1}^m r_j=\sum_{j=1}^m s_j\), we have \(w_R(M)=w_S(M)\) if all the entries \(r_j\) and \(s_j\) are at least \(k+3\). When \(M\) admits even a fold map, then the previous result holds even for entries at least \(k+2\).

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