Singular patterns of generic maps of surfaces with boundary into the plane

DOI10.1142/9789811206030_0012zbMATH Open1441.14124arXiv1902.03911OpenAlexW3034395576MaRDI QIDQ5117419FDOQ5117419

Publication date: 25 August 2020

Published in: Singularities — Kagoshima 2017 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For generic maps from compact surfaces with boundary into the plane we develop an explicit algorithm for minimizing both the number of cusps and the number of components of the singular locus. More precisely, we minimize among maps with fixed boundary conditions and prescribed singular pattern, by which we mean the combinatorial information of how the 1-dimensional singular locus meets the boundary. Each step of our algorithm modifies the given map only locally by either creating or eliminating a pair of cusps. We show that the number of cusps is an invariant modulo 2 and can be reduced to at most one, and we compute the minimal number of components of the singular locus in terms of the prescribed data. Applications include a discussion of pseudo-immersions as well as the computation of state sums in Banagl's positive topological field theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03911

zbMATH Keywords

Euler characteristic winding number swallowtail generic smooth map pseudo-immersion elimination of cusps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singularities of surfaces or higher-dimensional varieties (14J17)

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