Curvature, singularities and projections of smooth maps

This work is an initial attempt to extend to many-parameter families of smooth functions on a smooth manifold, and projections of smooth maps into subspaces of higher dimension, the well-known inter relations, between the space of Morse function on a smooth manifold and the space of immersions of th...

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Main Author: Smith, Michael Ian Nimmo
Published: Durham University 1971
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585983
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Summary:This work is an initial attempt to extend to many-parameter families of smooth functions on a smooth manifold, and projections of smooth maps into subspaces of higher dimension, the well-known inter relations, between the space of Morse function on a smooth manifold and the space of immersions of the manifold in a cartesian space, which are given by the Gauss-maps of the immersions, and the orthogonal projections of the immersions onto lines in the Cartesian spaces. Results, both local and global, are obtained.