Embeddings from the point of view of immersion theory: Part I

Abstract

Let M and N be smooth manifolds without boundary. Immersion theory suggests that an understanding of the space of smooth embeddings emb(M,N) should come from an analysis of the cofunctor V |--> emb(V,N) from the poset O of open subsets of M to spaces. We therefore abstract some of the properties of this cofunctor, and develop a suitable calculus of such cofunctors, Goodwillie style, with Taylor series and so on. The terms of the Taylor series for the cofunctor V |--> emb(V,N) are explicitly determined. In a sequel to this paper, we introduce the concept of an analytic cofunctor from O to spaces, and show that the Taylor series of an analytic cofunctor F converges to F. Deep excision theorems due to Goodwillie and Goodwillie-Klein imply that the cofunctor V |--> emb(V,N) is analytic when dim(N)-dim(M) > 2.

35 pages. Published copy, also available at http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/gt/GTVol3/paper3.abs.html

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• Embeddings from the point of view of immersion theory: Part I
• Calculus III: Taylor Series
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