The space of sections of a smooth function

Gunnar Carlsson; Benjamin Filippenko

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The space of sections of a smooth function

Gunnar Carlsson·Benjamin Filippenko

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Given a compact manifold $X$ with boundary and a submersion $f : X \rightarrow Y$ whose restriction to the boundary of $X$ has isolated critical points with distinct critical values and where $Y$ is $[0,1]$ or $S^1$, the connected components of the space of sections of $f$ are computed from $\pi_0$ and $\pi_1$ of the fibers of $f$. This computation is then leveraged to provide new results on a smoothed version of the evasion path problem for mobile sensor networks: From the time-varying homology of the covered region and the time-varying cup-product on cohomology of the boundary, a necessary and sufficient condition for existence of an evasion path and a lower bound on the number of homotopy classes of evasion paths are computed. No connectivity assumptions are required.

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Gunnar Carlsson, Benjamin Filippenko. 2020-06-22. The space of sections of a smooth function. https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.12023

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