Introducing totally nonparallel immersions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2020.107337MaRDI QIDQ2006064zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 8 October 2020

Published in Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11312

zbMATH Keywords

\(h\)-principleconfiguration spacesnonsingular bilinear mapstotally skew embeddingsremoval of singularitiestotally nonparallel immersions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Algebraic and analytic properties of mappings on manifolds (58K20) Jets in global analysis (58A20)

Abstract: An immersion of a smooth $n$-dimensional manifold $Momathbb{R}^q$ is called totally nonparallel if, for every distinct $x,yinM$, the tangent spaces at $f(x)$ and $f(y)$ contain no parallel lines. Given a manifold $M$, we seek the minimum dimension $TN(M)$ such that there exists a totally nonparallel immersion $Momathbb{R}^{TN(M)}$. In analogy with the totally skew embeddings studied by Ghomi and Tabachnikov, we find that totally nonparallel immersions are related to the generalized vector field problem, the immersion problem for real projective spaces, and nonsingular symmetric bilinear maps. Our study of totally nonparallel immersions follows a recent trend of studying conditions which manifest on the configuration space $F_k(M)$ of k-tuples of distinct points of $M$; for example, k-regular embeddings, k-skew embeddings, k-neighborly embeddings, etc. Typically, a map satisfying one of these configuration space conditions induces some $S_k$-equivariant map on the configuration space $F_k(M)$ (or on a bundle thereof) and obstructions can be computed using Stiefel-Whitney classes. However, the existence problem for such conditions is relatively unstudied. Our main result is a Whitney-type theorem: every $n$-manifold $M$ admits a totally nonparallel immersion into $mathbb{R}^{4n-1}$, one dimension less than given by genericity. We begin by studying the local problem, which requires a thorough understanding of the space of nonsingular symmetric bilinear maps, after which the main theorem is established using the removal-of-singularities h-principle technique due to Gromov and Eliashberg. When combined with a recent non-immersion theorem of Davis, we obtain the exact value $TN(mathbbR{P}^n)=4n-1$ when $n$ is a power of 2. This is the first optimal-dimension result for any closed manifold $Meq{S}^1$, for any of the recently-studied configuration space conditions.

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