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48 results for Thom polynomials

Relative Thom polynomials for maps around boundaries established.

problem Understanding singularities in maps around boundaries.
method Introducing and analyzing Thom polynomials relative to prescribed maps around boundaries, establishing structure theorems and correction terms.
result Unified framework for invariants of immersions and singularities of their extensions.

The paper finds a geometric explanation for coinciding Thom polynomials of cusp and corank-2 singularities.

problem Explaining the coincidence of Thom polynomials for cusp and corank-2 singularities.
method Analyzing geometrically the coincidence of Thom polynomials for Morin and corank-2 singularities.
result Found a geometric explanation for the coincidence of Thom polynomials for Morin and corank-2 singularities.

Study local moduli of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on specific polynomial links.

problem Understanding the local moduli of Sasaki-Einstein metrics on links of invertible polynomials.
method Analyzing Sasaki-Einstein metrics on links of invertible polynomials of cycle type and Thom-Sebastiani sums.
result For polynomials of cycle type, local moduli spaces are zero-dimensional. For Thom-Sebastiani sums, dimensions are positive.

Novikov initiated the study of the algebraic properties of quadratic forms over polynomial extensions by a far-reaching analogue of the Pontrjagin-Thom transversality construction of a Seifert surface of a knot and the infinite cyclic cover of the knot exterior. In this paper the analogy is applied to explain the relat…

2002-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Researchers describe a new Thom form for mapping cones.

problem Developing a new Thom form for mapping cones.
method Using the mapping cone covariant derivative and Berezin integral, they explicitly write down the Thom form.
result The Thom form is closed with respect to the mapping cone differentiation, integrates to 1 along the fiber, and satisfies the transgression formula.

An oriented link L in a 3-sphere S in complex 2-space is a C-boundary if it bounds a piece of algebraic curve in the 4-ball bounded by S. Using Kronheimer and Mrowka's proof of the Thom Conjecture, we construct many oriented knots which are not concordant to a C-boundary. We use the two-variable HOMFLY polynomial to gi…

2002-01-27abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work we analyze the behavior of Massey products of closed manifolds under the blow-up construction. The results obtained in the article are applied to the problem of constructing closed symplectic non-formal manifolds. The proofs use Thom spaces as an important technical tool. This application of Thom spaces is…

1999-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings contradict the Thom conjecture for high degree hypersurfaces in CP3CP^3.

problem Finding the simplest smooth simply connected 4-manifold in CP3CP^3 homologous to a degree dd hypersurface VdV_d.
method Comparing b2b_2 values of manifolds in the same homology class as VdV_d.
result For all d5d \geq 5, there exists a manifold MdM_d with b2(Md)<b2(Vd)b_2(M_d) < b_2(V_d).

We develop a theory of parametrized geometric cobordism by introducing smooth Thom stacks. This requires identifying and constructing a smooth representative of the Thom functor acting on vector bundles equipped with extra geometric data, leading to a geometric refinement of the the Pontrjagin-Thom construction in stac…

2017-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

This article is devoted to the study of smooth desingularization, which are customary employed in the definition of De Rham Intersection Cohomology with differential forms. In this paper we work with the category of Thom-Mather simple spaces. We construct a functor which sends each Thom-Mather simple space into a smoot…

2008-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

These notes are the first chapter of a monograph, dedicated to a detailed proof of the equivariant index theorem for transversally elliptic operators. In this preliminary chapter, we prove a certain number of natural relations in equivariant cohomology. These relations include the Thom isomorphism in equivariant cohomo…

2007-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

The study calculates the Smith-Thom deficiency of Hilbert squares and provides conditions for maximality.

problem Calculating the Smith-Thom deficiency of Hilbert squares and conditions for maximality.
method Using Mayer-Vietoris mapping and rank calculations.
result Established necessary and sufficient conditions for maximality of Hilbert squares in projective complete intersections.

The first part of this article intends to present the role played by Thom in diffusing Smale's ideas about immersion theory, at a time (1957) where some famous mathematicians were doubtful about them: it is clearly impossible to make the sphere inside out! Around a decade later, M. Gromov transformed Smale's idea in wh…

2017-03-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops deformation theory for mapping spaces related to Morse theory and Bott-Thom isomorphism.

problem Studying weak homotopy equivalences and decompositions of vector bundles.
method Morse theory on path spaces, deformation theory, Clifford representations, Bott-Thom isomorphism.
result Stable decompositions of vector bundles over sphere bundles derived from Clifford representations.

Paper confirms Thom's conjecture for nonlinear evolutions on manifolds.

problem Thom's gradient conjecture for nonlinear evolution equations.
method Extending and settling the conjecture in infinite dimensional problems using Łojasiewicz, L. Simon, and Kurdyka-Mostowski-Parusinski's foundational works.
result Uniqueness of the limiting direction and characterization of convergence rates for both classical and infinite dimensional settings.

This paper has been withdrawn by the author due a crucial sign error in Theorem B. We present a geometric proof of Thom conjecture, which uses Khovanov homology. Our approach doesn't use any analytic methods and is quite different from proof given by Kronheimer and Mrowka in 1994.

2007-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We indicate how to combine some classical topology (Thom's work on the Steenrod problem) with some modern topology (simplicial volume) to show that every map between certain manifolds must have degree zero. We furthermore discuss a homotopy theoretic interpretation of parts of our proof, using Thom spaces and Steenrod …

2018-08-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Let G be a compact Lie group. Let M be a smooth G-manifold and V --> M be an oriented G-equivariant vector bundle. One defines the spaces of equivariant forms with generalized coefficients on V and M. An equivariant Thom form θθ on V is a compactly supported closed equivariant form such that its integral along the fib…

2004-02-04abs ↗pdf ↗

We show that the spectrum constructed by Everitt and Turner as a possible Khovanov homotopy type is a product of Eilenberg-MacLane spaces and is thus determined by Khovanov homology. By using the Dold-Thom functor it can therefore be obtained from the Khovanov homotopy type constructed by Lipshitz and Sarkar.

2012-02-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Study shows a modified cobordism category's first derivative is equivalent to a Thom spectrum.

problem Analyzing the homotopy type of surface cobordism categories.
method Defined a new cobordism category over a base space, proving properties of induced functors and derivatives.
result The first derivative of the induced functor is equivalent to a Thom spectrum.

We observe that the Poincare duality isomorphism for a string manifold is an isomorphism of modules over the subalgebra A(2) of the modulo 2 Steenrod algebra. In particular, the pattern of the operations Sq^1, Sq^2, and Sq^4 on the cohomology of a string manifold has a symmetry around the middle dimension. We character…

2008-10-12abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper connects cut locus, Thom space, and Morse-Bott functions in Riemannian geometry.

problem Analyzing the square of the distance function to a submanifold in a Riemannian manifold.
method Investigates the Morse-Bott property of the square of the distance function on the complement of the cut locus.
result The Thom space of the normal bundle of a submanifold is homeomorphic to the quotient space of the complement of the cut locus.

In the first part of the paper we construct a ring structure on the rational cobordism classes of Morin maps (i. e. smooth generic maps of corank 1). We show that associating to a Morin map its singular strata defines a ring homomorphism to $Ω_* \otimes \Q$, the rational oriented cobordism ring. This is proved by analy…

2007-10-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study cobordisms of nested manifolds and their invariants.

problem Understanding cobordisms of nested manifolds and their invariants.
method Identify a nested analog of the Pontryagin-Thom construction and find spaces homotopy equivalent to nested Pontryagin-Thom spaces.
result Discover nested cobordism invariants and provide an alternative proof of Wall's splitting result.

Given a smooth compact manifold with boundary, we show that the subcomplex of the deformed de Rham complex consisting of eigenspaces of small eigenvalues of the Witten Laplacian is canonically isomorphic to the Thom-Smale complex constructed by Laudenbach. Our proof is based on Bismut-Lebeau's analytic localization tec…

2012-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

In a previous work we proved the uniqueness and functoriality of primary unfoldings on simple Thom-Mather spaces, which is a functor to the category of smooth manifolds. In this article we extend these results for any stratified Thom-Mather pseudomanifold with arbitary finite length, through a new kind of intermediate …

2009-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

After a review of several methods designed to produce equivariant cohomology classes, we apply one introduced by Berline, Getzler and Vergne, to get a family of representatives of the universal Thom class of a vector bundle. Surprisingly, this family does not contain the representative given by Mathaï and Quillen. Howe…

1997-01-20abs ↗pdf ↗

We prove conjectures of Rene Thom and Vladimir Arnold for C^2 solutions to the degenerate elliptic equation that is the level set equation for motion by mean curvature. We believe these results are the first instances of a general principle: Solutions of many degenerate equations behave as if they are analytic, even wh…

2017-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

By results of Loeffler and Comezana, the Pontrjagin-Thom map from geometric G-equivariant bordism to homotopy theoretic equivariant bordism is injective for compact abelian G. If G = S^1 x ... x S^1, we prove that the associated fixed point square is a pull back square, thus confirming a recent conjecture of D. Sinha. …

2004-12-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves Thom's conjecture for parabolic flows on Hilbert spaces.

problem Gradient flows on infinite-dimensional spaces and geometric flows with symmetry.
method Analytic functions, Hilbert spaces, Yang-Mills Flow, Ricci flow, critical points, Lojasiewicz inequality.
result Gradient conjecture holds for parabolic flows on Hilbert spaces, including flows with gauge symmetry.