On the Topological Structure Of Complex Tangencies to Embeddings of $S^3$ into $\mathbb{C}^3$
Abstract
In the mid-1980's, M. Gromov used his machinery of the -principle to prove that there exists totally real embeddings of into . Subsequently, Patrick Ahern and Walter Rudin explicitly demonstrated such a totally real embedding. In this paper, we consider the generic situation for such embeddings, namely where complex tangents arise as codimension-2 subspaces. We first consider the Heisenberg group and generate some interesting results there-in. Then, by using the biholomorphism of with the 3-sphere minus a point, we demonstrate that every homeomorphism-type of knot in may arise precisely as the set of complex tangents to an embedding . We also make note of the (non-generic) situation where complex tangents arise along surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.1506.07992,
title = {On the Topological Structure Of Complex Tangencies to Embeddings of $S^3$ into $\mathbb{C}^3$},
author = {Ali M. Elgindi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.07992},
year = {2015}
}
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Formal version published at: New York J. of Math. Vol. 18 (2012), 295-313