Three applications of delooping to h-principles

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Abstract: In this paper we give three applications of a method to prove h-principles on closed manifolds. Under weaker conditions this method proves a homological h-principle, under stronger conditions it proves a homotopical one. The three applications are as follows: a homotopical version of Vassiliev's h-principle, the contractibility of the space of framed functions, and a version of Mather-Thurston theory.


In his book [Partial differential relations. Berlin etc.: Springer (1986; Zbl 0651.53001)] \textit{M. Gromov} formulated a very general \(h\)-principle for invariant topological sheaves of smooth functions on manifolds, by which many geometric problems can be reduced to more tractable homotopy-theoretic problems. In the present paper, the author applies the machinery of Gromov to give general conditions under which an \(h\)-principle holds on closed manifolds, and check that these conditions are satisfied in three examples: (i) a homotopical version of Vassiliev's \(h\)-principle, (ii) the contractibility of the space of framed functions, (iii) a version of Mather-Thurston theory.



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