A note on a short proof of the parallelizability of orientable 3-manifolds

MaRDI QIDQ6405953zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Dionne Ibarra

Publication date 25 July 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25) Knot theory (57K10) Low-dimensional manifolds of specific dimension 5 or higher (57K50)

Abstract: We survey, complete, and modify a proof, involving knot theory, of Stiefel's theorem that all orientable $3$-manifolds are parallelizable. The completion of the proof is done by using the relationship between the tangent bundle and normal bundle of manifolds with non-trivial boundary and on stably parallelizable and parallelizable manifolds. We end with a remark on $7$-manifolds and present J. Korbav{s}' example of a non-parallelizable $7$-manifold.

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