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What is the “Standard” Open Book Decomposition for $\mathbb R^n$, and why does this matter?

I am trying to understand better Open book decompositions. To that effect, I tried to work out a couple of (relatively-simple) examples, specifically, for $\mathbb R^2 $ and higher. But I have not ...
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The Birman–Hilden Theorem and the Nielsen–Thurston classification

So this post is half question/half reference request, as I'm sure it's the kind of thing people would have thought about before (and indeed the question might even be trivial), but I've been unable to ...
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vertex linking sphere

S.Choi in his article " Geometric structures on low dimensional manifolds " uses " Haken diagram " of triangulated 3-manifolds.He starts with a tetrahedron in the triangulation and form the linking ...
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Hairy ball theorem: references to applications

I'm looking for references to applications of the Hairy ball theorem. I already visited wikipedia and cited references, but I need a little more explanation in both meteorology and applications in ...
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Status of PL topology

I'm starting to learn about geometric topology and manifold theory. I know that there are three big important categories of manifolds: topological, smooth and PL. But I'm seeing that while topological ...
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Sufficient conditions for “2-sphericity” of orientable triangulated 2d surface in 3d space

Let $T$ be finite set of tetrahedrons in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Let $T$ be tetrahedral complex in a sense that if two tetrahedrons intersect, the intersection is a face of both. Let $\partial T$ consist of ...
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Reference on Geometric Topology

Geometric topology is more motivated by objects it wants to prove theorems about. Geometric topology is very much motivated by low-dimensional phenomena -- and the very notion of low-dimensional ...
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Pinched torus generalization

The pinched torus is homeomorphic to a sphere with two (different) points identified.           What is the name and topological structure of the ...
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Fundamental Domain of Manifold Reference Request

I am interested in learning about the fundamental domain of a manifold and I am wondering if anyone know of any papers or descriptions online other than Wikipedia and the linked articles? I am looking ...