Introducing totally nonparallel immersions

DOI10.1016/J.AIM.2020.107337zbMATH Open1451.57016arXiv1907.11312OpenAlexW3047670535MaRDI QIDQ2006064FDOQ2006064

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 8 October 2020

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

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.

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

Recommendations

• Totally skew embeddings of manifolds
• Existence and nonexistence of skew branes
• Skew loops and quadric surfaces
• Skew loops in flat tori
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 851150
• scientific article
• Embeddings in the 3/4 range
• The relationship between framed bordism and skew-framed bordism
• ON THE MULTIPLE POINTS OF THE SELF-TRANSVERSE IMMERSIONS OF THE REAL PROJECTIVE SPACE AND THE MILNOR MANIFOLD
• Quasitoric manifolds and small covers over properly coloured polytopes: immersions and embeddings

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)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Shadows and convexity of surfaces
• Partial Differential Relations
• On Matrices Whose Real Linear Combinations are Nonsingular
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Vector fields on spheres
• Plongements différentiables de variétés dans variétés
• Dynamical systems VIII. Singularity theory. II: Classification and applications. Transl. from the Russian by J. S. Joel
• The singularities of a smooth \(n\)-manifold in \((2n-1)\)-space
• Immersions and embeddings of quasitoric manifolds over the cube
• 2𝑘-regular maps on smooth manifolds
• Euclidean Models of Projective Spaces
• The mod 2 equivariant cohomology algebras of configuration spaces
• KNOTS AND LINKS WITHOUT PARALLEL TANGENTS
• Tangent bundle embeddings of manifolds in Euclidean space
• On fibrations with flat fibres
• Plongements différentiables dans le domaine stable
• Skew flat fibrations
• Totally skew embeddings of manifolds
• Some interesting examples of nonsingular bilinear maps
• KO-equivalences and existence of nonsingular bilinear maps
• Skew loops and quadric surfaces
• No skew branes on non-degenerate hyperquadrics
• Skew loops in flat tori
• Immersions in the stable range
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Nonexistence of skew loops on ellipsoids
• Global differential properties of closed twisted curves
• Existence and nonexistence of skew branes
• Non-existence of \(n\)-dimensional \(T\)-embedded discs in \(\mathbb R^{2n}\)
• Embeddings with multiple regularity
• Some new results on composition of quadratic forms
• Some existence and non-existence theorems for k-regular maps
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• On k-regular embeddings of spaces in Euclidean space
• k-Regular Embeddings of the Plane
• On 𝑘-regular imbeddings and their application to the theory of approximation of functions
• On highly regular embeddings
• On Complex Highly Regular Embeddings and the Extended Vassiliev Conjecture:
• Topological obstructions to totally skew embeddings
• On \(r\)-neighbourly submanifolds in \(\mathbb{R}^N\)
• Neighborly embedded manifolds
• Construction of nonsingular bilinear maps
• ON BILINEAR AND SKEW-LINEAR MAPS THAT ARE NONSINGULAR
• On the unordered configuration space \(C(RP^n,2)\)
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Constructions of \(k\)-regular maps using finite local schemes
• k-Regular Mappings of 2 n -Dimensional Euclidean Space
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Non-singular bilinear maps and stable homotopy classes of spheres

Cited In (5)

• Spaces of embeddings: Nonsingular bilinear maps, chirality, and their generalizations
• The topology of projective codes and the distribution of zeros of odd maps
• Coupled embeddability
• Skew and sphere fibrations
• On the unordered configuration space \(C(RP^n,2)\)

This page was built for publication: Introducing totally nonparallel immersions

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2006064)