I'm currently working on strong Whitney's embedding theorem, using Adachi's notes on Embeddings and Immersions. But I am stuck on a statement that Adachi comments without proof about adding a unique self-intersection to a smooth immersion $f:M^n\to\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ of a $n$-dimensional manifold (page 65, theorem 2.9). By taking suitable charts the problem can be reduced to the following:

Given the cannonical inclusion $f=i:\mathbb{R}^n\hookrightarrow\mathbb{R}^n\times0\subset\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ we can replace it ona ball $B(0)\subset\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ by an specific immersion $\beta:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ with a unique self-intersection in $B(0)$, to obtain an immersion $g:\mathbb{R}^n\to\mathbb{R}^{2n}$ with a unique self-intersection on $B(0)$ and such that $g=i$ outside $B(0)$.

For example, when $n=1$ we have $f=i:\mathbb{R}\hookrightarrow\mathbb{R}\times0\subset\mathbb{R}^2$ and $\beta:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^2$ the immersion given by $\beta(x)=(x-\dfrac{2x}{1+x^2},\dfrac{1}{1+x^2})$ with the unique self-intersection point at $\beta(1)=\beta(-1)=(0,\dfrac{1}{2})$ (see image below).

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In this simple case it's natural for my to take a smooth bump function $\lambda:\mathbb{R}\to[0,1]$ such that $\lambda=1$ in $[-2,2]$ and $\lambda=0$ in $\mathbb{R}\setminus]-3,3[$, and then define the convex combination

$$g(x)=(1-\lambda(x))f(x)+\lambda(x)\beta(x)=\left(x-\lambda(x)\dfrac{2x}{1+x^2},\dfrac{\lambda(x)}{1+x^2}\right),$$

wich is a smooth map equal to $\beta$ on $[-2,2]$ and equal to $f=i$ on $\mathbb{R}\setminus]-3,3[$, with a unique self-intersection point at $g(-1)=g(1)=\beta(-1)=\beta(1)=(0,\dfrac{1}{2})$ (see figure below).

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My problem is that, even though $g$ is immersion on $[-2,2]\cup(\mathbb{R}\setminus]-3,3[)$ and injective on $]-3.-2[\cup]2.3[$, I can't prove that it's immersion on $]-3.-2[\cup]2.3[$ (purple intermediate part of $g$ in the picture) because I can't have control over the derivative of $\lambda$ in this domain. I also try approximate $g$ with a immersion $\widetilde{g}$ wich coincides with $g$ on $[-2,2]\cup(\mathbb{R}\setminus]-3,3[)$, but this not ensure that the aproximation is injective in $]-3.-2[\cup[2.3]$, wich is required for have only one self-intersection. Finally, I tried to modify $\beta$ to be close enough to $i$ in Whitney's $C^1$ topology with respect to the maximum of the norm of the derivative of $\lambda$, so that the convex combination remains an immersion, but I also had difficulties.

Maybe someone has a hint to solve this in my example, or there is a better way to combine the immersions $f$ and $\beta$ instead of using the convex combination with bump functions? 


  [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/IaBNZ.png
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/tDNFt.png