Jiggling: an h-principle without homotopical assumptions

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Main Authors: Fokma, Anna, del Pino, Álvaro, Toussaint, Lauran
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Published: 2025
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author Fokma, Anna
del Pino, Álvaro
Toussaint, Lauran
author_facet Fokma, Anna
del Pino, Álvaro
Toussaint, Lauran
contents The jiggling lemma of Thurston shows that any triangulation can be jiggled (read: subdivided and then perturbed) to be in general position with respect to a distribution. Our main result is a generalization of Thurston's lemma. It states that piecewise smooth solutions of a given open and fiberwise dense differential relation $\mathcal{R} \subset J^1(E)$ of first order can be constructed by jiggling arbitrary sections of $E$. Our statement also holds in parametric and relative form. We understand this as an h-principle without homotopical assumptions for piecewise smooth solutions of $\mathcal{R}$.
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spellingShingle Jiggling: an h-principle without homotopical assumptions
Fokma, Anna
del Pino, Álvaro
Toussaint, Lauran
Geometric Topology
Differential Geometry
57R45 (Primary) 57Q65, 57R05, 57R35 (Secondary)
The jiggling lemma of Thurston shows that any triangulation can be jiggled (read: subdivided and then perturbed) to be in general position with respect to a distribution. Our main result is a generalization of Thurston's lemma. It states that piecewise smooth solutions of a given open and fiberwise dense differential relation $\mathcal{R} \subset J^1(E)$ of first order can be constructed by jiggling arbitrary sections of $E$. Our statement also holds in parametric and relative form. We understand this as an h-principle without homotopical assumptions for piecewise smooth solutions of $\mathcal{R}$.
title Jiggling: an h-principle without homotopical assumptions
topic Geometric Topology
Differential Geometry
57R45 (Primary) 57Q65, 57R05, 57R35 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13627