Cobordism of smooth maps

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Definition

Suppose M1,M2,P are differential manifolds, and f1:M1P,f2:M2P are smooth maps. Then, a smooth cobordism from f1 to f2 is the following data:

Note that we may sometimes fix the cobordism between M1 and M2, and ask whether we can fill in a function F for the particular cobordism.