Transversality theorem in highly relative situations and its application

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to provide a notion of "relative objects", i.e. objects equipped with some sort of subobjects, in differential topology. In spite of active researches relating them, e.g. knot theory or the theory of manifolds with corners, there seem to be poor general notions to deal with them. Moreover, we want even more direct differential calculus on relative objects and extension of classical notions and theories to relative situations; e.g. functions, vector fields, jet bundles, singularities, and so on. To establish this, the notion of arrangements of manifolds is introduced, which, for example, enables us to control behaviors of smooth maps on manifolds around corners. We construct jet bundles and prove a relative version of Transversality Theorem for some sorts of arrangements. Finally, embedding theorem of manifolds with faces into polyhedra is proved as an application.