The classification of certain linked 3-manifolds in 6-space

Abstract: We work entirely in the smooth category. An embedding

f : (S^{2} i m e s S^{1}) s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

is {it Brunnian}, if the restriction of

f

to each component is isotopic to the standard embedding. For each triple of integers

k, m, n

such that

m e q u i v n p m o d 2

, we explicitly construct a Brunnian embedding

f_{k, m, n} : (S^{2} i m e s S^{1}) s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

such that the following theorem holds. Theorem: Any Brunnian embedding

f : (S^{2} i m e s S^{1}) s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

is isotopic to

f_{k, m, n}

for some integers

k, m, n

such that

m e q u i v n p m o d 2

. Two embeddings

f_{k, m, n}

and

f_{k^{'}, m^{'}, n^{'}}

are isotopic if and only if

k = k^{'}

,

m e q u i v m^{'} p m o d 2 k

and

n e q u i v n^{'} p m o d 2 k

. We use Haefliger's classification of embeddings

S^{3} s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

in our proof. The following corollary shows that the relation between the embeddings

(S^{2} i m e s S^{1}) s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

and

S^{3} s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

is not trivial. Corollary: There exist embeddings

f : (S^{2} i m e s S^{1}) s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

and

g, g^{'} : S^{3} s q c u p S^{3} i g h t a r r o w {m a t h b b R}^{6}

such that the componentwise embedded connected sum

is isotopic to

but

g

is not isotopic to

g^{'}

.

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