Borromean Rings and Embedding Obstructions

D. Repovš ; A. B. Skopenkov

Informatics and Automation, Solitons, geometry, and topology: on the crossroads, Tome 225 (1999), pp. 331-338.

Résumé

This survey describes recent examples of incompleteness of the Van Kampen and the deleted product obstructions beyond the metastable case. The construction is an interesting example of the interplay between algebraic and geometric topology and one of its origins is the Borromean rings example.

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