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REGULAR GENUS AND PRODUCTS OF SPHERES

  • Spaggiari, Fulvia (DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA UNIVERSITA DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA)
  • Received : 2008.10.16
  • Published : 2010.09.01
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Abstract

A crystallization of a closed connected PL manifold M is a special edge-colored graph representing M via a contracted triangulation. The regular genus of M is the minimum genus of a closed connected surface into which a crystallization of M regularly embeds. We disprove a conjecture on the regular genus of $\mathbb{S}\;{\times}\;\mathbb{S}^n$, $n\;{\geq}\;3$, stated in [J. Korean Math. Soc. 41 (2004), no. 3, p. 420].

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