Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Advance Access originally published online on December 14, 2006
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 2007 39(1):39-45; doi:10.1112/blms/bdl009
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An EkholmSz
cs-type formula for codimension one immersions of 3-manifolds up to bordism
Department of Mathematics
University of Iowa
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mtakase{at}math.uiowa.edu
Received 14 August 2005. Revision received 10 January 2006.
We give a formula for the bordism class of an immersion of an oriented 3-manifold in 4-space. It expresses the class in terms of the topology of a null-cobordism of the 3-manifold and certain singularities (the number of umbilic points) of a generic map of this null-cobordism into 4-space which extends the immersion.
Current address: Department of Mathematical Sciences Faculty of Science Shinsu University Matsumoto 3908621 Japan takase{at}math.shinsu-u.ac.jp