Immersions of Surfaces into Aspherical 3-Manifolds

2005/10/27 by Tahl Nowik, Nowik, Tahl
Engineering · Mathematics · #Adhesion, Friction, and Surface Interactions #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #math.GT

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0510600

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Abstract

We study finite order invariants of null-homotopic immersions of a closed orientable surface into an aspherical orientable 3-manifold. We give the foundational constructions, and classify all order one invariants.

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