The Prem Conjecture for smoothly k-realizable maps

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Let NnN^n be a smooth manifold and let f:Nn→Rmf:N^n\to\mathbb{R}^m be a smoothly kk-realizable general-position smooth map, meaning that the composition

N→fRm⊂Rm×RkN\xrightarrow{f}\mathbb{R}^m\subset\mathbb{R}^m\times\mathbb{R}^k

is C0C^0-approximable by smooth embeddings. A smooth map is a smooth kk-prem if it admits a smooth lifting to an embedding into Rm×Rk\mathbb{R}^m\times\mathbb{R}^k whose projection to Rm\mathbb{R}^m is the given map.

The Prem Conjecture. Smoothly kk-realizable general-position smooth maps Nn→RmN^n\to\mathbb{R}^m are smooth kk-prems, at least in the metastable range

2(m+k)≥3(n+1).2(m+k)\geq 3(n+1).

The conjecture relates approximation of the graph of a map by embeddings to the existence of an actual projected embedding. In the stated generality it has been resolved: every 11-realizable stable smooth map Nn→R2n−1N^n\to\mathbb{R}^{2n-1}, for n≥3n\geq 3, is a smooth 11-prem.

References

Primary source

Peter M. Akhmetiev and Sergey A. Melikhov, “Projected and near-projected embeddings”, arXiv:1711.03520 (2021).

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