{
  "id": "math/0512513",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-12-22T01:03:05.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-12-22T01:03:05.000Z",
  "title": "A short proof of Bing's characterization of$S^3$",
  "authors": [
    "Yo'av Rieck"
  ],
  "comment": "To appear in Proceedings of the AMS, 2 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math.GT"
  ],
  "abstract": "We give a short proof of Bing's characterization of $S^3$: a compact, connected 3-manifold $M$ is $S^3$ if and only if every knot in $M$ is isotopic into a ball.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-12-22T01:03:05.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "57M40",
      "57N12"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "short proof",
      "bings characterization"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 2,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2005math.....12513R"
    }
  }
}