The central theme for this paper is provided by the following three statements:
(1) Every compact connected 1-manifold is S1.
(2) Every compact connected simply connected 2-manifold is S2.
(3) Every compact connected simply connected 3-manifold is S3.
We provide proofs of statements (1) and (2). The veracity of the third statement, the Poincaré Conjecture, has not been determined. It is known that should a counter-example exist it can be found by removing from S3 a finite collect ion of solid tori and sewing them back differently. We show that it is not possible to find a counterexample by removing from S3 a single solid torus of twist knot type or torus knot type and sewing it back differently. We treat as special cases a solid torus of trivial knot type and trefoil knot type.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-7956 |
| Date | 01 May 1971 |
| Creators | Peck, Joseph D. |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Source Sets | Utah State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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