Timeline for Are transversely immersed PL surfaces Riemann surfaces?
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| Jun 18, 2011 at 22:15 | vote | accept | cduston | ||
| May 31, 2011 at 15:48 | vote | accept | cduston | ||
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| May 26, 2011 at 19:03 | comment | added | Andy Putman | I suspect that's true; I meant canonical in the sense of "any two smoothings are diffeomorphic". However, I don't know a proof that you can't smooth PL surfaces in a functorial way -- do you know one? | |
| May 26, 2011 at 18:42 | comment | added | Tom Goodwillie | I don't believe that every PL surface can be given a canonical smooth structure, not in the strong sense in which I understand canonical (functorial w.r.t. PL homeomorphisms). A triangulation can be made to determine a smooth structure, but that's not quite the same. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 18:01 | history | answered | Andy Putman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |