Heegaard splittings and Morse-Smale flows

We describe three theorems which summarize what survives in three dimensions of Smale's proof of the higher-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. The proofs require Smale's cancellation lemma and a lemma asserting the existence of a 2-gon. Such 2-gons are the analogues in dimension two of Whitn...

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Principais autores: Ralf Gautschi, Joel W. Robbin, Dietmar A. Salamon
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Hindawi Limited 2003-01-01
coleção:International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Acesso em linha:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S0161171203210115