Lifting generic maps to embeddings. Triangulation and smoothing

Abstract

We show that if a non-degenerate PL map $f:N\to M$ lifts to a topological embedding in $M\times\mathbb R^k$ then it lifts to a PL embedding in there. We also show that if a stable smooth map $N^n\to M^m$, $m\ge n$, lifts to a topological embedding in $M\times\mathbb R$, then it lifts to a smooth embedding in there.