Cerf theory, often associated with the work of mathematician Claude Cerf, primarily relates to the fields of topology and differential topology, particularly in the study of immersions and embeddings of manifolds. One of the significant contributions of Cerf is his work on the stability of immersions, which deals with understanding how small perturbations affect the topology of manifolds and the ways they can be embedded in Euclidean space.
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