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Maps of manifolds of the same dimension with prescribed Thom-Boardman singularities

Geometric Topology 2023-11-30 v5

Abstract

In this paper we extend Y.Eliashberg's hh-principle to arbitrary generic smooth maps of smooth manifolds. Namely, we prove a necessary and sufficient condition for a continuous map of smooth manifolds of the same dimension to be homotopic to a generic map with a prescribed Thom-Boardman singularity ΣI\Sigma^I at each point. In dimension 3 we rephrase these conditions in terms of the Stiefel-Whitney classes and the cohomology classes of the given loci of folds, cusps and swallowtail points.

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@article{arxiv.1810.10990,
  title  = {Maps of manifolds of the same dimension with prescribed Thom-Boardman singularities},
  author = {Andrey Ryabichev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10990},
  year   = {2023}
}

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29 pages. Minor corrections