Complements of Discriminants of Smooth Maps: Topology and Applications (Translations of Mathematical Monographs, Book 98) by V. A. Vassiliev
English | 1992 | ISBN: 0821846183 | ISBN-13: 9780821846186 | 265 pages | PDF | 2,8 MB
This book studies a large class of topological spaces, many of which play an important role in differential and homotopy topology, algebraic geometry, and catastrophe theory. These include spaces of Morse and generalized Morse functions, iterated loop spaces of spheres, spaces of braid groups, and spaces of knots and links.