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The study of differentiable manifolds and differentiable maps. One fundamental problem is that of classifying manifolds up to diffeomorphism. Differential topology is what Poincaré understood as topology or “analysis situs”.
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Do "surjective" degree zero maps exist?
It is a theorem of H. Hopf that a map between connected, closed, orientable n-manifolds of degree 0 is homotopic to a map that misses a point, when n > 2. See D. B. A. Epstein, The degree of a map. Pr …
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A reference for an equivariant Morse Lemma
Check Wasserman, Arthur G. Equivariant differential topology. Topology 8 1969 127--150. MR0250324 (40 #3563). In particular see Lemma 4.1 for an equivariant Morse lemma.
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Under what conditions are two orientation-reversing involutions of a compact surface equival...
Two orientation-reversing involutions of a given closed orientable surface are equivalent if and only they have the same number of fixed point circles and have the same orientation character, in the s …