Regular homotopy classes of locally generic mappings.

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2003.07.004MaRDI QIDQ1426477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors András Juhász

Publication date 14 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0506563

zbMATH Keywords

immersionlocally generic mappingregular homotopyWhitney umbrella

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Global theory of singularities (58K30)

Abstract: In this paper we generalize the notion of regular homotopy of immersions of a closed connected n-manifold into R^{2n-1} to locally generic mappings. The main result is that if n=2 then two mappings with singularities are regularly homotopic if and only if they have the same number of cross-cap (or Whitney-umbrella) singularities. As an application, we get a description of the path-components of the space of those immersions of a surface into R^4 whose projections into R^3 are locally generic.

Review text

Every continuous mapping \(M\to N\) of smooth manifolds of dimensions \(n\) and \(2n-1\), respectively \(n\geq 2\), can be approximated by a locally generic mapping, i.e., a mapping with only Whitney umbrella singularities. The author proves that locally generic mappings \(f,g: M^2\to \mathbb{R}^3\) of a closed connected surface are homotopic through locally generic mappings if and only if the numbers of Whitney umbrellas of \(f\) and \(g\) are the same.

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