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A triple-point Whitney trick

Geometric Topology 2022-10-11 v1

Abstract

We use a triple-point version of the Whitney trick to show that ornaments of three orientable (2k1)(2k-1)-manifolds in R3k1\mathbb R^{3k-1}, k>2k>2, are classified by the μ\mu-invariant. A very similar (but not identical) construction was found independently by I. Mabillard and U. Wagner, who also made it work in a much more general situation and obtained impressive applications. The present note is, by contrast, focused on a minimal working case of the construction.

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@article{arxiv.2210.04016,
  title  = {A triple-point Whitney trick},
  author = {Sergey A. Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.04016},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

5 pages. This paper is a more detailed exposition of 1.5 pages (Theorem 1.1 on pages 6-8) from arXiv:1711.03530v1

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