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Computability of Immersions

Daniel Epelbaum ⟨daniel@math.ucsb.edu⟩

Abstract:

Suppose we are handed a map of smooth manifolds and would like to know if it is homotopic to an immersion. In general this problem is undecidable, indeed even immersibility of an arbitrary manifold into Rn is undecidable. In this talk we will see how to use techniques from rational homotopy theory, and the h-principle of Hirsch and Smale to provide an algorithm for this problem whenever the codimension of the manifolds is odd.

Status: Accepted

Collection: Geometric Topology

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