Concurrent normals of immersed manifolds

Abstract: It is conjectured since long that for any convex body

K s u b s e t m a t h b b R^{n}

there exists a point in the interior of

K

which belongs to at least

2 n

normals from different points on the boundary of

K

. The conjecture is known to be true for

n = 2, 3, 4

. Motivated by a recent results of Y. Martinez-Maure, and an approach by A. Grebennikov and G. Panina, we prove the following: Let a compact smooth

m

-dimensional manifold

M^{m}

be immersed in

m a t h b b R^{n}

. We assume that at least one of the homology groups

H_{k} (M^{m}, m a t h b b Z_{2})

with

k < m

vanishes. Then under mild conditions, almost every normal line to

M^{m}

contains an intersection point of at least

normals from different points of

M^{m}

, where

is the sum of Betti numbers of

M^{m}

.

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