3-manifold
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- Principles
- Definition
- Mathematical theory of 3-manifolds
- Invariants describing 3-manifolds
- Connected sums
- Second homotopy groups
- Important examples of 3-manifolds
- Euclidean 3-space
- 3-sphere
- Real projective 3-space
- 3-torus
- Hyperbolic 3-space
- Poincaré dodecahedral space
- Seifert–Weber space
- Gieseking manifold
- Some important classes of 3-manifolds
- Hyperbolic link complements
- Some important structures on 3-manifolds
- Contact geometry
- Haken manifold
- Essential lamination
- Heegaard splitting
- Taut foliation
- Foundational results
- Moise's theorem
- Prime decomposition theorem
- Kneser–Haken finiteness
- Loop and Sphere theorems
- Annulus and Torus theorems
- JSJ decomposition
- Scott core theorem
- Lickorish–Wallace theorem
- Waldhausen's theorems on topological rigidity
- Waldhausen conjecture on Heegaard splittings
- Smith conjecture
- Cyclic surgery theorem
- Thurston's hyperbolic Dehn surgery theorem and the Jørgensen–Thurston theorem
- Thurston's hyperbolization theorem for Haken manifolds
- Tameness conjecture, also called the Marden conjecture or tame ends conjecture
- Ending lamination conjecture
- Poincaré conjecture
- Thurston's geometrization conjecture
- Virtually fibered conjecture and Virtually Haken conjecture
- Simple loop conjecture
- Surface subgroup conjecture
- Important conjectures
- Cabling conjecture
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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In mathematics, a 3-manifold is a topological space that locally looks like a three-dimensional Euclidean space. A 3-manifold can be thought of as a possible shape of the universe. Just as a sphere looks like a plane (a tangent plane) to a small and close enough observer, all 3-manifolds look like our universe to a small enough observer. This is made more precise in the definition below.