Local invariants of framed fronts in 3-manifolds (Q500657)

The authors deal with front invariants whose increments in generic homotopies are determined entirely by diffeomorphism types of local bifurcations of the fronts. Such invariants are dual to trivial 1-cycles supported on the discriminant in the space of the corresponding Legendrian maps. They describe the space of discriminantal cycles (possibly non-trivial) for framed fronts in an arbitrary oriented 3-manifold, both for the integer and mod-2 coefficients. For most of these cycles the homotopy-independent interpretations are found which guarantee the triviality required. In particular, the authors prove that all integer local invariants of Legendrian maps without corank-2 points are essentially exhausted by the number of points of isolated singularity types of the fronts.