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

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Abstract: We work entirely in the smooth category. An embedding f:(S2imesS1)sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 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 mequivnpmod2, we explicitly construct a Brunnian embedding fk,m,n:(S2imesS1)sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 such that the following theorem holds. Theorem: Any Brunnian embedding f:(S2imesS1)sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 is isotopic to fk,m,n for some integers k,m,n such that mequivnpmod2. Two embeddings fk,m,n and fk,m,n are isotopic if and only if k=k, mequivmpmod2k and nequivnpmod2k. We use Haefliger's classification of embeddings S3sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 in our proof. The following corollary shows that the relation between the embeddings (S2imesS1)sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 and S3sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 is not trivial. Corollary: There exist embeddings f:(S2imesS1)sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 and g,g:S3sqcupS3ightarrowmathbbR6 such that the componentwise embedded connected sum is isotopic to but g is not isotopic to g.









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