Part of the book series:Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 9791))
Included in the following conference series:
578Accesses
Abstract
Bing’s shrinking method is a key technique for constructing homeomorphisms between topological manifolds in geometric topology. Applications of this method include the generalized Schoenflies theorem, the double suspension theorem for homology spheres, and the 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. Homeomorphisms obtained in this method are sometimes counter-intuitive and may even be pathological. This makes Bing’s shrinking method a good target of formalization by proof assistants. We report our formalization of this method in Coq/Ssreflect.
This is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Subscribe and save
- Get 10 units per month
- Download Article/Chapter or eBook
- 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
- Cancel anytime
Buy Now
- Chapter
- JPY 3498
- Price includes VAT (Japan)
- eBook
- JPY 4804
- Price includes VAT (Japan)
- Softcover Book
- JPY 6006
- Price includes VAT (Japan)
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Carathéodory, C.: Mathematische Annalen (Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg) 73(2), 305–320 (1913)
Alexander, J.W.: An example of a simply connected surface bounding a region which is not simply connected. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.10(1), 8–10 (1924)
Bing, R.H.: A homeomorphism between the 3-sphere and the sum of two solid horned spheres. Ann. Math.56, 354–362 (1952)
Brown, M.: A proof of the generalized Schoenflies theorem. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.66, 74–76 (1960)
Edwards, R.D.: The topology of manifolds and cell-like maps. In: Proceedings of the ICM, Helsinki, pp. 111–127 (1978)
Freedman, M.H.: The topology of four-dimensional manifolds. J. Differ. Geom.17(3), 357–453 (1982)
Freedman, M.H.: Bing topology and Casson handles, notes by S. Behrens, Santa Barbara Lectures (2013)
Freedman, M.H., Quinn, F.: Topology of 4-Manifolds. PMS, vol. 39. Princeton University Press, Princeton (1990)
Mizar formalization of the Jordan curve theorem.http://mizar.uwb.edu.pl/jordan/
Hales, T.: The Jordan curve theorem, formally and informally. Am. Math. Mon.114(10), 882–894 (2007)
BingShrinkingCriterion.https://github.com/CuMathInfo/Topology/tree/master/BingShrinkingCriterion
Schepler, D.: Topology/v8.5 in coq-contribs.https://scm.gforge.inria.fr/anonscm/git/coq-contribs/coq-contribs.git
http://coquelicot.saclay.inria.fr/html/Coquelicot.Coquelicot.html
“Alexander Horned Sphere” From MathWorld–A Wolfram Web Resource.http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlexandersHornedSphere.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, Chiba University, Yayoi 1-33, Inage-ku, Chiba City, 263-0022, Japan
Ken’ichi Kuga, Manabu Hagiwara & Mitsuharu Yamamoto
- Ken’ichi Kuga
Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar
- Manabu Hagiwara
Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar
- Mitsuharu Yamamoto
Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar
Corresponding author
Correspondence toKen’ichi Kuga.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Michael Kohlhase
Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden
Moa Johansson
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
Bruce Miller
Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA
Leonardo de Moura
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Frank Tompa
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland
About this paper
Cite this paper
Kuga, K., Hagiwara, M., Yamamoto, M. (2016). Formalization of Bing’s Shrinking Method in Geometric Topology. In: Kohlhase, M., Johansson, M., Miller, B., de Moura, L., Tompa, F. (eds) Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42547-4_2
Download citation
Published:
Publisher Name:Springer, Cham
Print ISBN:978-3-319-42546-7
Online ISBN:978-3-319-42547-4
eBook Packages:Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)
Share this paper
Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:
Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article.
Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative