An index formula for a bundle homomorphism of the tangent bundle into a vector bundle of the same rank, and its applications

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/06910417zbMATH Open1372.57039arXiv1202.3854OpenAlexW1841564547MaRDI QIDQ520648FDOQ520648

Kentaro Saji, Masaaki Umehara, Kotaro Yamada

Publication date: 5 April 2017

Published in: Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a previous work, the authors introduced the notion of `coherent tangent bundle', which is useful for giving a treatment of singularities of smooth maps without ambient spaces. Two different types of Gauss-Bonnet formulas on coherent tangent bundles on 22-dimensional manifolds were proven, and several applications to surface theory were given. Let $M^n$ ($nge2$) be an oriented compact $n$-manifold without boundary and $T{M}^n$ its tangent bundle. Let $mathcalE$ be a vector bundle of rank $n$ over $M^n$, and $varphi:T{M}^{n}omathcalE$ an oriented vector bundle homomorphism. In this paper, we show that one of these two Gauss-Bonnet formulas can be generalized to an index formula for the bundle homomorphism $varphi$ under the assumption that $varphi$ admits only certain kinds of generic singularities. We shall give several applications to hypersurface theory. Moreover, as an application for intrinsic geometry, we also give a characterization of the class of positive semi-definite metrics (called Kossowski metrics) which can be realized as the induced metrics of the coherent tangent bundles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3854

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zbMATH Keywords

wave frontindex formulacoherent tangent bundleGauss-Bonnet type formulasMorin singularity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surfaces in Euclidean and related spaces (53A05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45)

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