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Under what conditions can an orientable Riemannian 3-manifold be defined implicitly?

Under what conditions can an orientable Riemannian 3-manifold $\Sigma$ be defined implicitly? What I mean by implicitly is that there exists a smooth function $f:\mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^m$, such ...
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Were 3-manifolds with $\sec>0$ known to be space forms before Ricci flow?

It is well known that R. Hamilton (JDG 1982) used Ricci flow to show that a closed $3$-manifold with positive Ricci curvature must be diffeomorphic to a spherical space form $S^3/\Gamma$, since such ...
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