Realizing homology classes up to cobordism

Authors Mark Grant, A. Szücs, Tamás Terpai

Publication date 22 December 2017

Published in Osaka Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05759, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ojm/1508486581

cobordism immersion singularities stratification

Bordism and cobordism theories and formal group laws in algebraic topology (55N22) Infinite loop spaces (55P47) Algebraic topology on manifolds and differential topology (57R19) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Realizing cycles by submanifolds (57R95)

Abstract: It is known that neither immersions nor maps with a fixed finite set of multisingularities are enough to realize all mod 2 homology classes in manifolds. In this paper we define the notion of realizing a homology class up to cobordism; it is shown that for realization in this weaker sense immersions are sufficient, but maps with a fixed finite set of multisingularities are still insufficient.

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Let \(M^n\) be a closed smooth manifold and \(\alpha \in H_k(M; \mathbb Z/2)\). Let \(\mathcal F\) be a class of smooth maps. A pair \((M, \alpha)\) is defined to be realizable if there exist a closed manifold \(V\) and a map \(f : V \to M\) such that \(f\in \mathcal F\) and \(f^*[V]\) is Poincaré dual to \(\alpha\). The authors prove that every pair \((M,\alpha)\) is realizable by immersions up to cobordism. On the other hand, the authors consider a certain class \(\mathcal F\) of stratified manifolds with multi-singularities, the so-called \(\tau\)-maps, and prove that there are pairs \((M,\alpha)\) that are not \(\mathcal F\)-realizable up to cobordism.

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