On the volume elements of a manifold with transverse zeroes (Q2330019)

This paper proves a version of Moser's theorem for transversally vanishing volume forms on orientable manifolds: two folded volume forms with a common critical set and coinciding de Rham cohomology and relative de Rham cohomology classes are diffeomorphic via a diffeomorphism that restricts to the identity on the submanifold of singularities. Similarly, two \(b^m\)-Nambu forms on a compact orientable manifold \(M\) are equivalent if and only if their \(b^m\)-cohomology classes coincide. A \(b^m\)-form of arbitrary degree \(p\) on a \(b^m\)-manifold \((M,Z)\) is desingularised to a form of degree \(p\), that is folded along \(Z\) if \(m\) is odd. Hence, a \(b^{2k+1}\)-Nambu form is desingularised to a folded volume form. The authors prove that two equivalent \(b^{2k+1}\)-Nambu forms are desingularised to two equivalent folded volume forms.