Cubications versus immersions' conjecture

Let MnM^n be a closed nn-manifold. A marked cubical decomposition of MnM^n is a cubical decomposition together with the marking data used to distinguish its cubical cells, and two such decompositions are equivalent modulo cubical flips. Let N(Mn)N(M^n) denote the cobordism group of codimension-one immersions into MnM^n: its elements are cobordism classes of immersions f:FMnf:F\to M^n from closed (n1)(n-1)-manifolds, with disjoint union as the group operation. Cubications versus immersions' conjecture. The set of marked cubical decompositions of the closed manifold MnM^n modulo cubical flips is in bijection with the elements of the cobordism group of codimension-one immersions into MnM^n. The conjecture seeks a complete algebraic-topological classification of cubical decompositions under flip equivalence; the source states that half of it was proved, while the conjecture's solution would give a satisfactory answer to Habegger's problem.

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Louis Funar, “Surface cubications mod flips”, arXiv:math/0501550 (2008).

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