ON THE TOPOLOGY OF SINGULARITIES OF THE SET OF SUPPORTING HYPERPLANES OF A SMOOTH SUBMANIFOLD IN AN AFFINE SPACE

Many new universal relations are obtained between the Euler numbers of manifolds of singular supporting hyperplanes of an arbitrary generic smooth closed k-dimensional submanifold in Rn where n 7 or k = 1. These relations are applied to Barner-convex curves in an odd-dimensional space Rn. A universal (nontrivial) linear relation is established between the numbers of singular supporting hyperplanes of various types but of the same total multiplicity n of tangency with a given generic smooth closed connected Barner-convex curve in Rn. The coefficients of this relation are defined by Catalan numbers.