Detecting Thom faults in stratified mappings

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Abstract: We state and prove several characterizations of Thom's regularity condition for stratified maps. In particular we extend to stratified maps some characterizations of Whitney (a) regularity, due to the second author.


Let \(V\) be a closed subset of a \(C^1\)-manifold \(N\). The notions of prestratification and stratification \(\Sigma\) of \(V\) are defined. For a prestratification \(\Sigma\) of \(V\) in \(N\) and a stratified map \(f:N\to P\), the authors define the notation that \(\Sigma\) is Thom \((a_f)\)-regular for the stratified map \(f\). In this paper, the authors prove that Thom \((a_f)\)-regularity is sufficient for the stability of transversality of foliated prestratifications. They give examples showing that transversality to foliations is not a generic condition and that we cannot detect Thom faults for this example. By using a new method, they show that Thom regularity is necessary and sufficient for the stability of transversality to foliated stratifications. In the case of the subanalytic case, they show that \((t_f)\)-regularity implies Thom \((a_f)\)-regularity and vice versa. Also, they prove that Thom regularity and a geometric version of Thom regularity (\((a_f^s)\)-regularity) are equivalent.











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