{ "id": "1812.09413", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-12-21T23:34:29.000Z", "updated": "2018-12-21T23:34:29.000Z", "title": "Algorithmic aspects of immersibility and embeddability", "authors": [ "Fedor Manin", "Shmuel Weinberger" ], "comment": "15 pages; comments welcome!", "categories": [ "math.GT", "cs.CG" ], "abstract": "We analyze an algorithmic question about immersion theory: for which $m$, $n$, and $CAT=\\mathbf{Diff}$ or $\\mathbf{PL}$ is the question of whether an $m$-dimensional $CAT$-manifold is immersible in $\\mathbb{R}^n$ decidable? As a corollary, we show that the smooth embeddability of an $m$-manifold with boundary in $\\mathbb{R}^n$ is undecidable when $n-m$ is even and $11m \\geq 10n+1$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-12-21T23:34:29.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "57R42", "57Q35", "03D15" ], "keywords": [ "algorithmic aspects", "immersibility", "algorithmic question", "immersion theory" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }