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Metastable Immersion, Span and the Two-type of a Manifold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Henry Glover  and
William Homer
Henry Glover
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Ohio State UniversityColumbus, Ohio, 43210
William Homer
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of NewfoundlandSt. John's, Newfoundland, A1B 3X7
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Abstract

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The existence of metastable immersion or span for space forms and homogeneous spaces is shown to depend only on the two-type of the space.

Keywords

Primary 57R4257R25Secondary 55P60
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , 01 March 1986 , pp. 20 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1986

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