An intersection homology obstruction to immersions
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Abstract:
Given an immersion of a pseudomanifold in a manifold, certain Thom operations are naturally defined in intersection homology. This is used to obtain nonimmersion results for singular spaces.References
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Additional Information
- © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 96 (1986), 693-697
- MSC: Primary 57Q35; Secondary 57R42, 58A35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1986-0826504-8
- MathSciNet review: 826504