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Embedding simply connected 2-complexes in 3-space

Combinatorics 2023-09-28 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

Firstly, we characterise the embeddability of simply connected locally 3-connected 2-dimensional simplicial complexes in 3-space in a way analogous to Kuratowski's characterisation of graph planarity, by nine excluded minors. This answers questions of Lov\'asz, Pardon and U. Wagner. The excluded minors are the cones over K5K_5 and K3,3K_{3,3}, five related constructions, and the remaining two are obtained from triangulations of the M\"obius strip by attaching a disc at its central cycle. Secondly, we extend the above theorem to all simply connected 2-dimensional simplicial complexes.

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@article{arxiv.2309.15504,
  title  = {Embedding simply connected 2-complexes in 3-space},
  author = {Johannes Carmesin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.15504},
  year   = {2023}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.04643

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