Framing 3-manifolds with bare hands (Q2327752)

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      Framing 3-manifolds with bare hands (English)
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      15 October 2019
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      Summary: After surveying existing proofs that every closed, orientable 3-manifold is parallelizable, we give three proofs using minimal background. In particular, our proofs do not rely on spin structures, the theory of Stiefel-Whitney classes, nor the Lickorish-Wallace theorem.
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      3-manifold
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      combing
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      framing
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      parallelisability
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      Stiefel-Whitney class
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      spin structure
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      surgery
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