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Smoothing closed gridded surfaces embedded in ${\mathbb R}^4$

Geometric Topology 2017-02-20 v1

Abstract

We say that a topological nn-manifold NN is a cubical nn-manifold if it is contained in the nn-skeleton of the canonical cubulation C\mathcal{C} of Rn+k{\mathbb{R}}^{n+k} (k1k\geq1). In this paper, we prove that any closed, oriented cubical 22-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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