Cobordisms of singular maps

Abstract

The notion of cobordism of singular maps was introduced around 1980 by A. Sz\H{u}cs and U. Koschorke independently. As an application, Sz\H{u}cs used it to compute cobordism groups of immersions and embeddings in dimensions where the classical theory did not succeed. His method of studying cobordism groups of singular maps involves the investigation of classifying spaces that were constructed by him, first in a few special cases, then, with the help of the work of Rim\'anyi, in complete generality. Since then quite a few results and (partial) computations were performed in this theory. The present thesis collects and organises these results of Sz\H{u}cs, Terpai and other coauthors towards and on the computation of cobordism groups of singular maps.