Introduction to the $h$-Principle (Graduate Studies in Mathematics, V 48)
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Published: June 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780821832271
Subjects: Algebraic topology; Differential equations; Numerical solutions; Geometry - Differential; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Reference; Differentiable manifolds; Geometry, Differential
First sentence: A. Immersions. A smooth map f : V W of an n-dimensional manifold V into a q-dimensional manifold W, n &lt; q. is called an immersion if its differential has the maximal rank n at every point.