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Spaces of polynomials as Grassmanians for immersions and embeddings

Let $Y$ be a smooth compact $n$-manifold. We study smooth embeddings and immersions $β: M \to \mathbb R \times Y$ of compact $n$-manifolds $M$ such that $β(M)$ avoids some a priory chosen closed poset $Θ$ of {\sf tangent patterns} to the fibers of the obvious projection $π: \mathbb R \times Y \to Y$. Then, for a fixed $Y$, we introduce an equivalence relation between such $β$'s; it is a crossover between pseudo-isotopies and bordisms. We call this relation {\sf quasitopy}. In the study of quasitopies, the spaces $\mathcal P_d^{\mathbf cΘ}$ of real univariate polynomials of degree $d$ with real divisors, whose combinatorial patterns avoid a given closed poset $Θ$, play the classical role of Grassmanians. We compute the quasitopy classes $\mathcal{QT}_d^{\mathsf{emb}}(Y, \mathbf cΘ)$ of $Θ$-constrained embeddings $β$ in terms of homotopy/homology theory of spaces $Y$ and $\mathcal P_d^{\mathbf cΘ}$. We prove also that the quasitopies of emeddings stabilize, as $d \to \infty$.