Smoothing closed gridded surfaces embedded in ${\mathbb R}^4$
Geometric Topology
2017-02-20 v1
Abstract
We say that a topological -manifold is a cubical -manifold if it is contained in the -skeleton of the canonical cubulation of (). In this paper, we prove that any closed, oriented cubical -manifold has a transverse field of 2-planes in the sense of Whitehead and therefore it is smoothable by a small ambient isotopy.
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@article{arxiv.1702.05467,
title = {Smoothing closed gridded surfaces embedded in ${\mathbb R}^4$},
author = {Juan Pablo Díaz and Gabriela Hinojosa and Rogelio Valdez and Alberto Verjovsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.05467},
year = {2017}
}
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