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Hi, all:
I'm trying to understand the meaning of the term "null-homotopic framing".
Say K is a knot embedded in a manifold , and N(K) is a tubular neighborhood of K
( there is a theorem that a compact submanifold allows for the existence of a tubular
neighborhood).
I read about it here, under " motivation for the Legendrian conjecture " :
http://electrichandleslide.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-legendrian-surgery-conjecture/
A framing here is a choice ( up to isotopy, I believe; not specified in Rolfsen's book) of
isomorphism between the tubular neighborhood N(K) and ## S^1 \times D^2 ##.
(Though K can be any manifold for which a tubular neighborhood exists, e.g., maybe
the normal bundle N(K) is trivial, or K is compact, embedded in some ambient manifold M)
I understand the obvious meaning of null-homologous for a cycle in any space, meaning
that the cycle is , e.g., a bounding cycle (cycle with non-trivial boundary) in simplicial homology,
so homologically trivial, or different definitions for different choices of homology, but I cannot see what a
null-homologous framing is. Any ideas?
Thanks.
I'm trying to understand the meaning of the term "null-homotopic framing".
Say K is a knot embedded in a manifold , and N(K) is a tubular neighborhood of K
( there is a theorem that a compact submanifold allows for the existence of a tubular
neighborhood).
I read about it here, under " motivation for the Legendrian conjecture " :
http://electrichandleslide.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/the-legendrian-surgery-conjecture/
A framing here is a choice ( up to isotopy, I believe; not specified in Rolfsen's book) of
isomorphism between the tubular neighborhood N(K) and ## S^1 \times D^2 ##.
(Though K can be any manifold for which a tubular neighborhood exists, e.g., maybe
the normal bundle N(K) is trivial, or K is compact, embedded in some ambient manifold M)
I understand the obvious meaning of null-homologous for a cycle in any space, meaning
that the cycle is , e.g., a bounding cycle (cycle with non-trivial boundary) in simplicial homology,
so homologically trivial, or different definitions for different choices of homology, but I cannot see what a
null-homologous framing is. Any ideas?
Thanks.
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