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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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A dictionary of Characteristic classes and obstructions

I apologize in advance as this is not a research level question but rather one which could benefit from expert attention but is potentially useful mainly to novice mathematicians. In an effort to ge …
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What is an "Instanton" in classical gauge theory? (to a mathematician)

There's already a question about the same topic but I think its aim is different. Classical (non-quantum) gauge theory is a completely rigorous mathematical theory. It can be phrased in completely di …
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Topological description of a blow up of a manifold along a submanifold

There's a very nice topological description of blow ups of complex manifolds at a point as connected sum with projective space. The following is an attmept to understand whether there's a higher dimen …
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A map of spaces implementing the Pontryagin Thom collapse map? (collapse maps in families)

Let $M$ be an $n$ dimensional smooth manifold and let $j: M \to \mathbb{R}^{m}$ be an embedding. Associated to this embedding we can form the "collapse map" which is a pointed map from a sphere to the …
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Bounding the dimension of the euclidean space in which any $n$-manifold embeds "$k$-uniquely...

(The question will be interesting for topological/Pl as well but in order to not be too vague I will restrict the meaning of manifold to smooth manifold without boundary). I'm interested in the funct …
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