Lickorish-Wallace theorem (English, name)
expansion: Lickorish-Wallace theorem
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topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The theorem that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold may be obtained by performing Dehn surgery on a framed link in the 3-sphere with ±1 surgery coefficients, and that each component of the link can be assumed to be unknotted.
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