Canonical framings for 3-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Canonical framings and stable framings for the tangent bundle of a spin 3-manifold are introduced, and illustrated by a number of familiar examples. Methods for constructing canonical framings, and for comparing them with other naturally defined framings, are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.math/9903056,
title = {Canonical framings for 3-manifolds},
author = {Rob Kirby and Paul Melvin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9903056},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
29 pages. To appear in Turkish J. Math, 1999, Proc. Gokova 1998