Spaces of polynomials as Grassmanians for immersions and embeddings

Abstract: Let

Y

be a smooth compact

n

-manifold. We study smooth embeddings and immersions

of compact

n

-manifolds

M

such that

avoids some a priory chosen closed poset

T h e t a

of {sf tangent patterns} to the fibers of the obvious projection

p i : m a t h b b R i m e s Y o Y

. Then, for a fixed

Y

, we introduce an equivalence relation between such

's; it is a crossover between pseudo-isotopies and bordisms. We call this relation {sf quasitopy}. In the study of quasitopies, the spaces

m a t h c a l P_{d}^{m a t h b f c T h e t a}

of real univariate polynomials of degree

d

with real divisors, whose combinatorial patterns avoid a given closed poset

T h e t a

, play the classical role of Grassmanians. We compute the quasitopy classes

m a t h c a l {Q T}_{d}^{m a t h s f e m b} (Y, m a t h b f c T h e t a)

of

T h e t a

-constrained embeddings

in terms of homotopy/homology theory of spaces

Y

and

m a t h c a l P_{d}^{m a t h b f c T h e t a}

. We prove also that the quasitopies of emeddings stabilize, as

d o i n f t y

.

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