Embeddings of manifolds with boundary: classification
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1 Introduction
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].
If the category is omitted, then a result stated below holds in both the smooth and piecewise-linear (PL) category.
We state only the results that can be deduced from Haefliger-Weber theorem, see [Skopenkov2006, 5]. Note that the deleted product approach do not give the most short proofs possible. Sometimes we give references to direct proofs but we do not claim to provide references to the original proofs of stated results.
Theorem 1.1. Every -manifold with nonempty boundary PL embeds into .
This result can be found in [Horvatic1971, theorem 5.2]
2 Unknotting Theorems
Theorem 2.1. Assume that is a compact -manifold and either
(a) or
(b) is connected and .
Then any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
The condition (a) stands for General Position Theorem and the condition (b) stands for Whitney-Wu Unknotting Theorem, see theorems 2.1 and 2.2 respectively of [Skopenkov2016c, 2].
Theorem 2.2. Assume that 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.
Part (a) of this theorem in case can be found in [Edwards1968, 4, corollary 5]. Case is clear. Case has a short direct proof or can be deduced from Haefliger-Weber deleted square criterion [Skopenkov2006, 5].
Theorem 2.2 is a special cases of the following result, see [Penrose&Whitehead&Zeeman1961, Theorem 1.2b] and [Skopenkov2006].
Theorem 2.3. [The Haefliger-Zeeman unknotting Theorem] Assume that is a closed -connected -manifold. Then for each , any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
Theorem 2.4. Assume that is a -connected -manifold with non-empty boundary. Then for every and any two embeddings of into are isotopic.
This result can be found in [Hudson1969, Theorem 10.3]
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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- [Skopenkov2016c] A. Skopenkov, Embeddings in Euclidean space: an introduction to their classification, to appear to Bull. Man. Atl.