Approximating maps of 2-manifolds with zero-dimensional nondegeneracy sets

DOI10.1016/0166-8641(92)90059-9MaRDI QIDQ1193418zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthew V. Brahm

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Topology and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0166-8641(92)90059-9

zbMATH Keywords

approximation by an embeddingDehn diskmap of a 2-manifold to a 3-manifoldpoint preimagesrecognition problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology (54B15) Wild embeddings (57M30) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Review text

Let \(f\) be a map of a 2-manifold \(M^ 2\) to a 3-manifold \(M^ 3\) such that \(N_ f=\{x\in M^ 2: f^{-1}f(x)\neq x\}\) is 0-dimensional. This paper attacks the conjecture that \(f\) can be approximated by an embedding, confirming it when \(N_ f\) is closed and otherwise establishing its equivalence with two related conjectures. The key contribution is a complicated but useful and original technical device which shows, among other things, that such a map \(f\) can be approximated by a map having point preimages of arbitrarily small diameter.

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