The compression theorem II: directed embeddings

DOI10.2140/GT.2001.5.431MaRDI QIDQ1416616zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Colin Rourke, Brian J. Sanderson

Publication date 15 December 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0003026, https://eudml.org/doc/123320, http://www.emis.de/journals/UW/gt/GTVol5/paper16.abs.html

zbMATH Keywords

Compressiondirected embeddingflatteningtriple lemma

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) Immersions in differential topology (57R42)

Abstract: This is the second of three papers about the Compression Theorem. We give proofs of Gromov's theorem on directed embeddings [M Gromov, Partial differential relations, Springer--Verlag (1986); 2.4.5 C'] and of the Normal Deformation Theorem [The compression theorem I; 4.7], arxiv:math.GT/9712235.

Review text

This is the second of a set of three papers on the compression theorem. It contains a geometric proof of the normal deformation theorem, which is a general version of the compression theorem and was proved in the first paper of the series [Geom. Topol. 5, 399-429 (2001; Zbl 1002.57057)] by different methods. Central step in the present proof is a flattening lemma. It states that a compressible manifold \(M^n \subset Q^q \times {\mathbb{R}}^t\), \( q - n \geq 1\), may be deformed by a \(C^0\)-small isotopy in Q in a position, such that its tangent space lies in a given neighborhood of the horizontal subset of the Grassmann bundle of n-planes in the tangent bundle \(T(Q^q \times {\mathbb{R}}^t)\). Gromov's theorem on directed embeddings [\textit{M. Gromov}, Partial differential relations (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), (1986; Zbl 0651.53001)] is deduced from the normal deformation theorem. It is remarked that the normal deformation theorem may be deduced from Gromov's theorem.

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