Framing 3-manifolds with bare hands

DOI10.4171/LEM/64-3/4-9zbMATH Open1426.57044arXiv1806.04991WikidataQ127445061 ScholiaQ127445061MaRDI QIDQ2327752FDOQ2327752

Authors: Paolo Lisca, R. Benedetti 

Publication date: 15 October 2019

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: After surveying existing proofs that every closed, orientable 3-manifold is parallelizable, we give three proofs using minimal background. In particular, our proofs use neither spin structures nor the theory of Stiefel-Whitney classes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.04991

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zbMATH Keywords

3-manifoldsurgeryspin structureStiefel-Whitney classframingcombingparallelisability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)

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