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arxiv: math/0312311 · v1 · submitted 2003-12-16 · 🧮 math.GT

Framings and Projective Framings for 3-Manifolds

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We give an elementary proof of the fact that any orientable 3-manifold admits a framing (i.e. is parallelizable) and any non-orientable 3-manifold admits a projective framing. The proof uses only basic facts about immersions of surfaces in 3-space.

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