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The Reeb Graph of a Map Germ from ℝ3 to ℝ2 with Isolated Zeros

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2016

Erica Boizan Batista
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Caixa Postal 676, 13560-905, São Carlos-SP, Brazil (ericabbatista@gmail.com)
João Carlos Ferreira Costa
Affiliation:
Departamento de Matemática, IBILCE-UNESP, Campus de São José do Rio Preto-SP, Brazil (jcosta@ibilce.unesp.br)
Juan J. Nuño-Ballesteros
Affiliation:
Departament de Geometria i Topologia, Universitat de València, Campus de Burjassot 46100, Spain (juan.nuno@uv.es)

Abstract

We consider finitely determined map germs f : (ℝ3, 0) (ℝ2, 0) with f–1(0) = {0} and we look at the classification of this kind of germ with respect to topological equivalence. By Fukuda's cone structure theorem, the topological type of f can be determined by the topological type of its associated link, which is a stable map from S2 to S1. We define a generalized version of the Reeb graph for stable maps γ : S2→ S1, which turns out to be a complete topological invariant. If f has corank 1, then f can be seen as a stabilization of a function h0: (ℝ2, 0) (ℝ, 0), and we show that the Reeb graph is the sum of the partial trees of the positive and negative stabilizations of h0. Finally, we apply this to give a complete topological description of all map germs with Boardman symbol Σ2, 1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 2017 

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