Self-intersections of wave fronts and Legendre (Lagrangian) characteristic numbers (Q760951)

The paper generalizes the author's methods in ibid. 15, No.3, 10-22 (1981; Zbl 0493.57008). From a multijet stratification of low-dimensional singularity classes a complex of \({\mathbb{Z}}_ 2\)-modules is constructed, where the generators correspond with k-types of singularity classes and the boundary operator is obtained from simultaneous adjacency relation. The cohomology in dimension 1 to 7 of the complex is computed with the help of a spectral sequence. From the cohomology of this complex one can obtain new restrictions of the coexistence of singularities in wave fronts. Among others it is proved that: The number of points at which generic compact wave fronts of appropriate dimensions have singularities of type \(A_ 3\), \(A_ 5\) or \(A_ 7\) is even. The number of points of type \(E_ 6\) is equal modulo two to the number of intersection points between the strata of \(A_ 5\) and \(A_ 1\).