On Stiefel's parallelizability of 3-manifolds (Q2695004)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7669876
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    On Stiefel's parallelizability of 3-manifolds
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7669876

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      On Stiefel's parallelizability of 3-manifolds (English)
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      30 March 2023
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      In the paper under review, the authors give a new elementary proof of the parallelizability of closed orientable 3-manifolds by using Heegaard splittings, Morse theory, vector bundles, homology and linear algebra as follows: \textbf{Stiefel's Parallelizability Theorem.} Every smooth closed orientable 3-manifold is parallelizable.
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      parallelization
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      trivial tangent bundle
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      frame field
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      3-manifold
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