Microbundles and smoothing
Microbundles and smoothing
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微束和平滑
DOI:
10.1016/0040-9383(65)90003-0
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发表时间:
1965
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通讯作者:
M. Rothenberg
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作者:
R. Lashof;M. Rothenberg
IN THIS PAPER we concern ourselves with the following question. Suppose one has an unbounded combinatorial manifold Kcontained in an unbounded differentiable manifold M. When does there exist a piecewise differentiable isomorphism h: M+ A4 such that h (K) is a smooth submanifold of M. It is clearly necessary that K have a vector bundle neighborhood in M. Our main result asserts that if K is the homotopy type of a &rite complex the converse is true.This theorem can be thought of as a refined version of the fundamental theorem of smoothing theory due to Cairns-Hirsch. While the “classical” Cairns-Hirsch theorem is our takeoff point the generalization is not straightforward. Our basic tool is the theory of piecewise linear microbundles due to Milnor [5], and we assume familiarity with these notes. Aside from a strong form of the “classical” Cairns-Hirsch theorem due to Mazur [4] and the notes of Milnor, we utilize techniques and results in differential topology which have already appeared in print.