Functor calculus and the discriminant method

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAT057MaRDI QIDQ2922464zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rui Reis, Michael S. Weiss

Publication date 10 October 2014

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1483

zbMATH Keywords

inadmissible point of a smooth mapleft-right equivalencepolynomial cofunctorspace of the r-jetsVassiliev's discriminant method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R35) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05) Classification; finite determinacy of map germs (58K40)

Abstract: The discriminant method is a tool for describing the cohomology, or the homotopy type, of certain spaces of smooth maps with uncomplicated singularities from a smooth compact manifold L to R^k. We recast some of it in the language of functor calculus. This reformulation allows us to use the discriminant method in a setting where we wish to impose conditions on the multilocal behavior of smooth maps f from L to R^k.

Review text

The authors reformulate the discriminant method in the language of functor calculus. This reformulation permits to use the discriminant method in a setting where some conditions on the multilocal behavior of smooth maps \(f :L \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^k\) are imposed. The paper is organized into four sections dealing with the following topics: the discriminant method after Vassiliev, discriminant method and manifold calculus, admissible multijets. At the end of the paper five appendices completing the material are given: interpolation and tameness; topology of badness; excision in locally finite homology; boundary conditions; polynomial functors, analytic functors and duality. Another paper by the authors directly connected to this subject is [\textit{R. Reis} and \textit{M. S. Weiss}, Port. Math. (N.S.) 69, No. 1, 41--67 (2012; Zbl 1266.58022)], and by the second author there are [\textit{T. G. Goodwillie} and \textit{M. Weiss}, Geom. Topol. 3, 103--118 (1999; Zbl 0927.57028)] (with T. G. Goodwillie), [\textit{M. Weiss}, Bull. Am. Math. Soc., New Ser. 33, No. 2, 177--187 (1996; Zbl 0870.57042), Geom. Topol. 3, 67--101 (1999; Zbl 0927.57027); erratum ibid. 15, No. 1, 407--409 (2011)] and [Q. J. Math. 55, No. 4, 499--504 (2004; Zbl 1065.57030)].

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