On the Wu invariants for immersions of a graph into the plane.

Authors: Ryo Nikkuni
Subjects: Geometric Topology
link: http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.3109
Abstract

We give an explicit calculation of the Wu invariants for immersions of a
finite graph into the plane and classify all generic immersions of a graph into
the plane up to regular homotopy by the Wu invariant. This result is a
generalization of the fact that two plane curves are regularly homotopic if and
only if they have the same rotation number.