Embedding products of low-dimensional manifolds into \(\mathbb{R}^m\) (Q5936520)

The authors study the embeddability, into Euclidean spaces, of Cartesian products of closed manifolds of dimensions less than or equal to 3. They prove the following results: (1) For the Cartesian product of \(s\) circles, \(p\) orientable 2-manifolds, \(q\) unorientable 2-manifolds, \(r\) orientable 3-manifolds and \(t\) unorientable 3-manifolds, the lowest dimension of the Euclidean space, in which the product is embeddable, is \(s+2p+3q+3r+4t+1\), if either some orientable 3-manifold in the product is embeddable in Euclidean 4-space or \(p+q+s+t>0\). (2) The product of \(r\) orientable 3-manifolds each of which is not embedded in Euclidean 4-space is embeddable in Euclidean \((3r+2)\)-space. The latter result is best possible in the sense that for each \(r>0\) there exists a product of \(r\) orientable 3-manifolds such that the product is not embeddable in Euclidean \((3r+1)\)-space.