Directed immersions of closed manifolds

DOI10.2140/GT.2011.15.699MaRDI QIDQ538528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mohammad Ghomi

Publication date 25 May 2011

Published in Geometry \& Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2429

zbMATH Keywords

closed hypersurfaceconvex integrationdirected immersionGauss maph-principleparallelizable manifoldspherical image

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Higher-dimensional and -codimensional surfaces in Euclidean and related (n)-spaces (53A07) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Abstract: Given any finite subset X of the sphere S^n, n>1, which includes no pairs of antipodal points, we explicitly construct smoothly immersed closed orientable hypersurfaces in Euclidean space R^{n+1} whose Gauss map misses X. In particular, this answers a question of M. Gromov.

Review text

To every \(C^1\) immersion \(f: M^n \to \mathbb R^{n+1}\) of a closed oriented \(n\)-manifold \(M,\) one can associate the subset \(G_f(M)\) of \(S^n\) known as Gauss image or spherical image of \(M.\) This paper deals with the problem of characterizing the subsets of \(S^n\) which can appear as spherical images of an immersion \(f: M \to \mathbb R^{n+1}.\) It is well known that if the Gauss image is not onto \(S^n,\) \(M\) must be parallelizable; in particular when \(n=2,\) the surface \(M\) is the torus \(T^2.\) Given any finite subset \( X \) of the sphere \(S^n\), \(n \geq 2\), containing no pairs of antipodal points, the author explicitly constructs smoothly immersed closed orientable hypersurfaces \(M\) in Euclidean space \(\mathbb R^{n+1}\) whose Gauss map misses \( X.\) In particular, his result answers a question of M. Gromov.

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