in this paper we will determine the multiple point manifolds of certain self-transverse immersions in euclidean spaces. following the triple points, these immersions have a double point self-intersection set which is the image of an immersion of a smooth 5-dimensional manifold, cobordant to dold manifold $v^5$ or a boundary. we will show there is an immersion of $s^7times p^2$ in $mathbb{r}^{13...

A canonically defined mod 2 linear dependency current is associated to each collection v of sections, Vl, . . . , Vm, of a real rank n vector bundle. This current is supported on the linear dependency set of v. It is defined whenever the collection v satisfies a weak measure theoretic condition called "atomicity." Essentially any reasonable collection of sections satisfies this condition, vastl...

Associated to a compact Lie group G is the abelian group P(G) of total Stiefel-Whitney classes of representations. In certain cases the rank of P(G) is equal to the number of conjugacy classes of involutions in G. For the symmetric groups Sn, the total Stiefel-Whitney class of the regular representation is highly divisible in P(Sn) and this implies the existence of 'global' Dickson invariants i...