SELF-INTERSECTIONS OF IMMERSIONS AND STEENROD OPERATIONS

Eccles, Peter J. and Grant, Mark (2012) SELF-INTERSECTIONS OF IMMERSIONS AND STEENROD OPERATIONS. Acta Mathematica Hungarica. pp. 1-10. ISSN 1588-2632

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Abstract

We present a formula describing the action of a gener- alised Steenrod operation of Z2-type [14] on the cohomology class represented by a proper self-transverse immersion f : M # X. Our formula depends only on the Umkehr map, the characteris- tic classes of the normal bundle, and the class represented by the double point immersion of f. This generalises a classical result of R. Thom [13]: If 2 Hk(X;Z2) is the ordinary cohomology class represented by f : M # X, then Sqi() = fwi(f ).

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Immersion, Self-intersections, Steenrod-tom Dieck op- erations, Steenrod squares, geometric cobordism.
Subjects: MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 55 Algebraic topology
MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 57 Manifolds and cell complexes
Depositing User: Ms Lucy van Russelt
Date Deposited: 18 Mar 2012
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2017 14:13
URI: https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/1791

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