Smoothing conjecture for closed cubical manifolds in codimension two
Smoothing conjecture for closed cubical manifolds in codimension two
Let be a closed, oriented, cubical -manifold embedded in , with . A transverse field of 2-planes means a continuous choice of a 2-dimensional plane transverse to at every point.
Smoothing conjecture. Every such is smoothable. More precisely, admits a transverse field of 2-planes and therefore there is an arbitrarily small topological isotopy carrying onto a smooth manifold in .
This conjecture concerns smoothing higher-dimensional cubical manifolds embedded in codimension two. The stated smoothing implication uses a theorem of J. H. C. Whitehead, but the source does not provide evidence that the conjecture itself has been resolved.
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Juan Pablo Díaz, Gabriela Hinojosa, Rogelio Valdez and Alberto Verjovsky, “Smoothing closed gridded surfaces embedded in R^4”, arXiv:1702.05467 (2017).
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