Contractible 3-manifolds and the double 3-space property

DOI10.1090/TRAN/7035zbMATH Open1381.57015arXiv1711.05043OpenAlexW2517830079MaRDI QIDQ4600440FDOQ4600440

Authors: David G. Wright, Dennis J. Garity, Dušan Repovš 

Publication date: 9 January 2018

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gabai showed that the Whitehead manifold is the union of two submanifolds each of which is homeomorphic to $mathbb{R}^3$ and whose intersection is again homeomorphic to $mathbb{R}^3$. Using a family of generalizations of the Whitehead Link, we show that there are uncountably many contractible 3-manifolds with this double 3-space property. Using a separate family of generalizations of the Whitehead Link and using an extension of interlacing theory, we also show that there are uncountably many contractible 3-manifolds that fail to have this property.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.05043

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zbMATH Keywords

embeddingslinkscontractible 3-manifoldsWhithehead manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35) Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65)

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