No Tight Projective Plane


For M not a sphere, there must be at least one top cycle.

Recall that a top cycle:
  • is a non-trivial 1-cycle, and
  • has an orientable neighborhood.


But:

  • \RP2 has only one non-trivial homology class.
  • It's neighborhood is non-orientable.
  • So there can be no tight \RP2.



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