Double point self-intersection surfaces of immersions

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Abstract: A self-transverse immersion of a smooth manifold M^{k+2} in R^{2k+2} has a double point self-intersection set which is the image of an immersion of a smooth surface, the double point self-intersection surface. We prove that this surface may have odd Euler characteristic if and only if k is congruent to 1 modulo 4 or k+1 is a power of 2. This corrects a previously published result by Andras Szucs. The method of proof is to evaluate the Stiefel-Whitney numbers of the double point self-intersection surface. By earier work of the authors these numbers can be read off from the Hurewicz image h(alpha ) in H_{2k+2}Omega ^{infty }Sigma ^{infty }MO(k) of the element alpha in pi _{2k+2}Omega ^{infty }Sigma ^{infty }MO(k) corresponding to the immersion under the Pontrjagin-Thom construction.












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