Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable

Matoušek J, Sedgwick E, Tancer M, Wagner U. 2018. Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable. Journal of the ACM. 65(1), 5.

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Matoušek, Jiří; Sedgwick, Eric; Tancer, MartinISTA ; Wagner, UliISTA
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We show that the following algorithmic problem is decidable: given a 2-dimensional simplicial complex, can it be embedded (topologically, or equivalently, piecewise linearly) in R3? By a known reduction, it suffices to decide the embeddability of a given triangulated 3-manifold X into the 3-sphere S3. The main step, which allows us to simplify X and recurse, is in proving that if X can be embedded in S3, then there is also an embedding in which X has a short meridian, that is, an essential curve in the boundary of X bounding a disk in S3 \ X with length bounded by a computable function of the number of tetrahedra of X.
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2018-01-01
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Journal of the ACM
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65
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1
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5
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Matoušek J, Sedgwick E, Tancer M, Wagner U. Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable. Journal of the ACM. 2018;65(1). doi:10.1145/3078632
Matoušek, J., Sedgwick, E., Tancer, M., & Wagner, U. (2018). Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable. Journal of the ACM. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078632
Matoušek, Jiří, Eric Sedgwick, Martin Tancer, and Uli Wagner. “Embeddability in the 3-Sphere Is Decidable.” Journal of the ACM. ACM, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3078632.
J. Matoušek, E. Sedgwick, M. Tancer, and U. Wagner, “Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable,” Journal of the ACM, vol. 65, no. 1. ACM, 2018.
Matoušek J, Sedgwick E, Tancer M, Wagner U. 2018. Embeddability in the 3-Sphere is decidable. Journal of the ACM. 65(1), 5.
Matoušek, Jiří, et al. “Embeddability in the 3-Sphere Is Decidable.” Journal of the ACM, vol. 65, no. 1, 5, ACM, 2018, doi:10.1145/3078632.
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