The Space of Framed Functions is Contractible

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-28821-0_5MaRDI QIDQ5261059zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nikolai Mishachev, Yakov Eliashberg

Publication date 1 July 2015

Published in Essays in Mathematics and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1000

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Critical points of functions and mappings on manifolds (58K05)

Abstract: According to Kiyoshi Igusa a generalized Morse function on an n-dimensional manifold M is a smooth function with only Morse and birth-death singularities and a framed function is a generalized Morse function with an additional structure: a framing of the negative eigenspace at each critical point of the function f. In his paper "The space of framed functions" (Trans. of Amer. Math. Soc., 301(1987), 431-477) Igusa proved that the space of framed generalized Morse functions is (n-1)-connected. In the paper "On the Classification of Topological Field Theories" (arXiv:0905.0465) Jacob Lurie gave an algebraic topological proof that the space of framed functions is contractible. In this paper we give a geometric proof of Igusa-Lurie's theorem in the spirit of our paper "Wrinkling of smooth mappings - II. Wrinkling of embeddings and K.Igusa's theorem" (Topology, 39(2000), 711-732.

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