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arxiv: 1509.06881 · v1 · pith:JI6UNAHInew · submitted 2015-09-23 · 🧮 math.GT

Thurston's h-principle for 2-dimensional Foliations of Codimension Greater than One

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We recreate an unpublished proof of William Thurston from the early 1970's that any smooth 2-plane field on a manifold of dimension at least 4 is homotopic to the tangent plane field of a foliation.

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