Eliminating higher-multiplicity intersections in the metastable dimension range

Publication date 1 April 2017

Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Helly-type theorems and geometric transversal theory (52A35) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Smooth approximations in differential topology (57R12) Equivariant operations and obstructions in algebraic topology (55S91)

Abstract: The procedure to remove double intersections called the Whitney trick is one of the main tools in the topology of manifolds. The analogues of Whitney trick for

r

-tuple intersections were `in the air' since 1960s. However, only recently they were stated, proved and applied to obtain interesting results. Here we prove and apply the

r

-fold Whitney trick when general position

r

-tuple intersection has positive dimension. A continuous map

f c o l o n M o B^{d}

from a manifold with boundary to the

d

-dimensional ball is called proper, if

f^{- 1} (p a r t i a l B^{d}) = p a r t i a l M

. Theorem. Let

D = D_{1} s q c u p l d o t s s q c u p D_{r}

be disjoint union of

k

-dimensional disks, and

f : D o B^{d}

a proper map such that

f p a r t i a l D_{1} c a p l d o t s c a p f p a r t i a l D_{r} = e m p t y s e t

, and the map

f^r:partial(D_1 imesldots imes D_r) o (B^d)^r-{(x,x,ldots,x)in(B^d)^r : xin B^d}

extends continuously to

D_{1} i m e s l d o t s i m e s D_{r}

. If

r d g e (r + 1) k + 3

, then there is a proper map

such that

on

p a r t i a l D

and

.

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