Quantitative nonorientability of embedded cycles (Q1700516)

The author defines an invariant on certain manifolds and cycles and uses this invariant to answer open questions in geometric measure theory. If \(A\) is a mod-\(\nu\) cycle in \(\mathbb R^N\) or integral current mod \(\nu\), then the \textit{nonorientability of \(A\)} is defined to be the infimal masses of \(\mathbb Z\) cycles equivalent to \(A\). This invariant describes the difficulty of decomposing a cycle into orientable pieces. The author proves that nonorientability of integral cycles is approximately bounded from above by mass. The author uses this to positively answer a couple open questions. The author proves that the map \(T\mapsto \nu T\) is an embedding on the space of integral flat \(d\)-chains in \(\mathbb R^n\), with closed image. The author also proves that every integral current mod \(\nu\) is equivalent mod \(\nu\) to an integral current.