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Aug 17, 2011 at 13:49 vote accept none
Aug 17, 2011 at 12:28 comment added Alain Valette @ Ryan, after editing: OK, thank you for the explanation. Meanwhile I also learned of a theorem by Steenrod, that every orientable 3-manifold is parallelizable!
Aug 17, 2011 at 1:57 history edited Ryan Budney CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 16, 2011 at 22:55 history edited Ryan Budney CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 16, 2011 at 22:53 comment added Ryan Budney You've got much more flexibility when it comes to trivializations of the tangent bundle -- the $SL_2 \mathbb Z$ restriction is only for the gluing map. Anyhow, I hope the edit helps.
Aug 16, 2011 at 22:48 history edited Ryan Budney CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 16, 2011 at 21:52 comment added Alain Valette @ Ryan: Can you be more specific on "rotating a little"? Since $\alpha$ is not isotopic to the identity (assuming $\alpha\neq Id$), I don't see how you do it.
Aug 16, 2011 at 17:51 history answered Ryan Budney CC BY-SA 3.0