AN INTEGRAL FORMULA AND ITS APPLICATION TO NORMAL EULER NUMBER

作者:Ge Jianquan; Tang Zizhou*
来源:International Journal of Mathematics, 2008, 19(8): 891-897.
DOI:10.1142/S0129167X08004935

摘要

We establish a general integral formula over sphere, and then apply it to give a geometrical proof of the celebrated topological theorem of Lashof and Smale, which asserts that the tangential degree of the tangent sphere bundle coincides with the normal Euler number for an immersion M-n -> E-2n of an oriented closed manifold into Euclidean space of twice dimension.

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