2‐complexes with unique embeddings in 3‐space

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12718MaRDI QIDQ6176590zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Agelos Georgakopoulos, Jaehoon Kim

Publication date 23 August 2023

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.04085

zbMATH Keywords

3-connected graph3-dimensional Schoenflies theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Connectivity (05C40) Embedding (54C25) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15) General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds (57N35)

Abstract: A well-known theorem of Whitney states that a 3-connected planar graph admits an essentially unique embedding into the 2-sphere. We prove a 3-dimensional analogue: a simply-connected $2$-complex every link graph of which is 3-connected admits an essentially unique locally flat embedding into the 3-sphere, if it admits one at all. This can be thought of as a generalisation of the 3-dimensional Schoenflies theorem.

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