Topology of spaces of S-immersions
arXiv:1108.1270
Abstract
We use the wrinkling theorem proven in Y. Eliashberg and N. Mishachev, "Wrinkling of smooth mappings and its applications - I", Invent. Math., 130(1997), 345-369, to fully describe the homotopy type of the space of S-immersions, i.e. equidimensional folded maps with prescribed folds.
25 pages, 10 figures