On the triple points of singular maps

DOI10.1007/S00014-002-8347-XMaRDI QIDQ699686zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tobias Ekholm, A. Szücs

Publication date 25 September 2002

Published in Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00014-002-8347-x

zbMATH Keywords

closed manifoldgeneric (stable) mapimmersionlinking numbernormal Stiefel-Whitney classPontryagin numbersingular mapStiefel-Whitney numbertriple point

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Immersions in differential topology (57R42) Singularities of differentiable mappings in differential topology (57R45) Global theory of singularities (58K30)

Review text

Given a closed smooth \(2n\)-dimensional manifold \(M\) and a generic (stable) map \(f: M\rightarrow \mathbb R^{3n}\), let \(t_2(f)\) be the mod \(2\) number of the triple points of \(f\), and let \(l_2(f)\) be the mod \(2\) linking number of \(f\). The authors prove that then \(t_2(f)+l_2(f)= \bar w_n^2[M] + \bar w_{n+1}\bar w_{n-1}[M],\) where \(\bar w_i\in H^i(M; \mathbb Z_2)\) denotes the \(i\)-th normal Stiefel-Whitney class of \(M\), and \([M]\) is the fundamental homology class of \(M\). This result corrects an erroneous formula of \textit{A. Szűcs} [Comment. Math. Helv. 61, 360-369 (1986; Zbl 0602.57021), p. 361]. Another result of the paper under review is the following theorem which, as commented in the paper, resulted from a correspondence between R. Stong and the second author: If \(M\) is an oriented \(4k\)-dimensional manifold and \((2k_1 + 1)+\dots + (2k_r + 1)=4k\), then \(\bar w_{2k_1 + 1}\cdots \bar w_{2k_r + 1}[M]=0\).

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