On framings of 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(90)90021-BzbMath0716.57011MaRDI QIDQ753207

Michael F. Atiyah

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

2-framing of a 3-manifoldcentral extensions of the mapping class groupJones invariantsSpin(6) bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34)

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