Using generating functions, we derive a multiple point formula for every generic immersion between even dimensional oriented manifolds. This produces explicit formulas for the signature and Pontrjagin numbers of the multiple point manifolds. The formulas take a particular simple form in many special cases, eg when the immersion is nullhomotopic, we recover Szűcs’s formulas in [Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998) 1873-1882]. They also include Hirzebruch’s virtual signature formula in Topological methods in algebraic geometry.
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author = {Braun, G\'abor},
title = {The cobordism class of the multiple points of immersions},
journal = {Algebraic and Geometric Topology},
pages = {581--601},
year = {2008},
volume = {8},
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doi = {10.2140/agt.2008.8.581},
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Braun, Gábor. The cobordism class of the multiple points of immersions. Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 8 (2008) no. 1, pp. 581-601. doi: 10.2140/agt.2008.8.581
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[3] , On the multiple points of immersions in Euclidean spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 126 (1998) 1873
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