On the 3-Dimensional Poincar\'e Conjecture and the 4-Dimensional Smooth Schoenflies Problem

arXivmath/0612554MaRDI QIDQ6478469FDOQ6478469

Publication date: 19 December 2006

Abstract: This is the announcement of an alternative approach to the 3-dimensional Poincar'e Conjecture, different from Perelman's big and spectacular breakthrough. No claim concerning the other parts of the Thurston Geometrization Conjecture, come with our purely 4-dimensional line of argument.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10) Cellularity in topological manifolds (57N60)

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