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Canonical framings for 3-manifolds

Rob Kirby, Paul Melvin

math.GTarXiv:math/9903056

Abstract

Canonical framings and stable framings for the tangent bundle of a spin 3-manifold are introduced, and illustrated by a number of familiar examples. Methods for constructing canonical framings, and for comparing them with other naturally defined framings, are discussed.

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