3-manifolds in 6-space
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1 The Haefliger trefoil knot
Let us construct a smooth embedding (which is a generator of ) [Haefliger1962], 4.1. A miraculous property of this embedding is that it is not isotopic to the standard embedding, but is isotopic to the standard embedding.
Denote coordinates in by . The higher-dimensional trefoil knot is obtained by joining with two tubes the higher-dimensional , i.e. the three spheres given by the following three systems of equations:
See Figures 3.5 and 3.6 of [Skopenkov2006].
2 The Hopf construction of an embedding
Represent Define
It is easy to check that is an embedding. (The image of this embedding is given by the equations , .)
It would be interesting to obtain an explicit construction of an embedding which is not isotopic to the composition of the Hopf embedding with the standard inclusion . (Such an embedding is unique up to PL isotopy by classification just below the stable range.)
3 Algebraic embeddings from the theory of integrable systems
Some 3-manifolds appear in the theory of integrable systems together with their embeddings into (given by a system of algebraic equations) [Bolsinov&Fomenko2004], Chapter 14. E.g. the following system of equations corresponds to the Euler integrability case:
where and are variables while and are constants. This defines embeddings of , or into .
4 References
- [Bolsinov&Fomenko2004] A. V. Bolsinov and A. T. Fomenko, Integrable Hamiltonian systems, Chapman \& Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2004. MR2036760 (2004j:37106) Zbl 1056.37075
- [Haefliger1962] A. Haefliger, Knotted -spheres in -space, Ann. of Math. (2) 75 (1962), 452–466. MR0145539 (26 #3070) Zbl 0105.17407
- [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.
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