Embeddings of manifolds with boundary: classification
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1 Introduction
Most of this page is intended not only for specialists in embeddings, but also for mathematician from other areas who want to apply or to learn the theory of embeddings.
Recall that some Unknotting Theorems hold for manifolds with boundary [Skopenkov2016c, 3], [Skopenkov2006, 2]. In this page we present results peculiar for manifold with non-empty boundary.
For a general introduction to embeddings as well as the notation and conventions used on this page, we refer to [Skopenkov2016c, 1, 3].
2 Unknotting Theorems
Theorem 2.1. Assume is a compact connected -manifold and one of the following conditions holds:
(a) (General position theorem) ;
(b) (Whitney-Wu unknotting theorem) ;
Then any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
Theorem 2.2. Every -manifold with nonempty boundary PL-embeds into .
This result can be found in [Horvatic1971, theorem 5.2]
Theorem 2.3. Assume is a compact connected -manifold with non-empty boundary and one of the following conditions holds:
(a)
(b) is -connected,
Then any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
Theorem 2.4. Say -manifold is compact, . Let be PL-embeddings, . Suppose is -connected. Then and are ambient isotopic.
This result can be found in [Hudson1969, Theorem 10.3]
Theorem 2.5. [The Haefliger-Zeeman unknotting theorem] For every , and closed -connected -manifold , any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
3 Construction and examples
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4 Invariants
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5 Classification
Theorem 5.1.[Becker-Glover] Let be a closed homologically -connected -manifold and . The cone map is one-to-one for and is surjective for .
6 Further discussion
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7 References
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- [Horvatic1971] K. Horvatic, On embedding polyhedra and manifolds, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 157 (1971), 417-436.
- [Hudson1969] J. F. P. Hudson, Piecewise linear topology, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., New York-Amsterdam, 1969. MR0248844 (40 #2094) Zbl 0189.54507
- [Skopenkov2006] A. Skopenkov, Embedding and knotting of manifolds in Euclidean spaces, in: Surveys in Contemporary Mathematics, Ed. N. Young and Y. Choi, London Math. Soc. Lect. Notes, 347 (2008) 248-342. Available at the arXiv:0604045.
- [Skopenkov2016c] A. Skopenkov, Embeddings in Euclidean space: an introduction to their classification, to appear to Bull. Man. Atl.