Homotopy is not isotopy for homeomorphisms of 3-manifolds
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Publication:1078852
DOI10.1016/0040-9383(86)90003-0zbMath0596.57008OpenAlexW2040357980MaRDI QIDQ1078852
John L. Friedman, Donald M. Witt
Publication date: 1986
Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(86)90003-0
quantum gravityDehn twistconnected sum of two 3-manifoldshomeomorphism of a closed 3-manifoldhomotopic but not isotopic to the identityisotopy classes of homeomorphisms
Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Isotopy in differential topology (57R52) Differential topological aspects of diffeomorphisms (57R50)
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