Equivariant intersection number of π-trivial immersions
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1 Introduction
This is a work in progress! Initial blurb.
Let be an oriented cover of a connected manifold and let , be -trivial immersions of manifolds in . The equivariant intersection number counts with elements of the number of intersection points that the two immersions have. The intersection number is an obstruction to perturbing the immersions into being disjoint, which when zero can often be achieved using the Whitney trick.
The intersection number is also used in defining the intersection form of a -dimensional manifold and in turn its signature - a very important invariant used in the classification of manifolds and the primary surgery obstruction.
2 Definition
3 Alternative Description
Instead of thinking in terms of lifts the equivariant index can also be defined in terms of paths. Let be a basepoint of , a basepoint of for and let be some choice of lift. For a transverse double point , an isotopy class of paths from to corresponds to a lift as follows.
The effect on the equivariant index of a change of order in the double point is given byThe geometric intersection number of transverse immersions is
4 Equivalence of definitions
The algebraic and geometric intersection numbers agree. See REFERENCE
5 Examples
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