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There is one sentence I don't understand in some paper.



"A simply connected and conformally flat three mainifold can be conformally immersed into $S^3$" by the means of a developing map.



Is any reference about this short argument? Maybe it is a direct consequence from definition. Could anyone explain a little bit to me?










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    The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
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There is one sentence I don't understand in some paper.



"A simply connected and conformally flat three mainifold can be conformally immersed into $S^3$" by the means of a developing map.



Is any reference about this short argument? Maybe it is a direct consequence from definition. Could anyone explain a little bit to me?










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    The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
    – Ben McKay
    Nov 28 '18 at 17:00














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There is one sentence I don't understand in some paper.



"A simply connected and conformally flat three mainifold can be conformally immersed into $S^3$" by the means of a developing map.



Is any reference about this short argument? Maybe it is a direct consequence from definition. Could anyone explain a little bit to me?










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There is one sentence I don't understand in some paper.



"A simply connected and conformally flat three mainifold can be conformally immersed into $S^3$" by the means of a developing map.



Is any reference about this short argument? Maybe it is a direct consequence from definition. Could anyone explain a little bit to me?







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    The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
    – Ben McKay
    Nov 28 '18 at 17:00














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    The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
    – Ben McKay
    Nov 28 '18 at 17:00








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The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
– Ben McKay
Nov 28 '18 at 17:00




The general story is explained in Sharpe's book Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Programme, but the argument is precisely Petrunin's below.
– Ben McKay
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Since $mathbb{S}^3$ is conformally flat, we can think that any point of our manifold $M$ admits a neighborhood that is conformally equivalent to an open set in $mathbb{S}^3$.



If two such neighbohoods overlap then the corresponding gluing map between corresponding open sets in $mathbb{S}^3$ is a composition of inversions (Liouville's theorem).



So after applying a composition of inversions to one of the open sets you can assume that the gluing map is identity.
This way you can extend the parametrization of a neighborhood to an immersed neighborhood of any path.



The composition of inversions at a neighborhhod of the end point of path depends continuously on the path and therefore has to be the same for homotopic paths.
Since $M$ is simply connected it gives a well defined conformal immersion $Mhookrightarrow mathbb{S}^3$.






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    Since $mathbb{S}^3$ is conformally flat, we can think that any point of our manifold $M$ admits a neighborhood that is conformally equivalent to an open set in $mathbb{S}^3$.



    If two such neighbohoods overlap then the corresponding gluing map between corresponding open sets in $mathbb{S}^3$ is a composition of inversions (Liouville's theorem).



    So after applying a composition of inversions to one of the open sets you can assume that the gluing map is identity.
    This way you can extend the parametrization of a neighborhood to an immersed neighborhood of any path.



    The composition of inversions at a neighborhhod of the end point of path depends continuously on the path and therefore has to be the same for homotopic paths.
    Since $M$ is simply connected it gives a well defined conformal immersion $Mhookrightarrow mathbb{S}^3$.






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      Since $mathbb{S}^3$ is conformally flat, we can think that any point of our manifold $M$ admits a neighborhood that is conformally equivalent to an open set in $mathbb{S}^3$.



      If two such neighbohoods overlap then the corresponding gluing map between corresponding open sets in $mathbb{S}^3$ is a composition of inversions (Liouville's theorem).



      So after applying a composition of inversions to one of the open sets you can assume that the gluing map is identity.
      This way you can extend the parametrization of a neighborhood to an immersed neighborhood of any path.



      The composition of inversions at a neighborhhod of the end point of path depends continuously on the path and therefore has to be the same for homotopic paths.
      Since $M$ is simply connected it gives a well defined conformal immersion $Mhookrightarrow mathbb{S}^3$.






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        Since $mathbb{S}^3$ is conformally flat, we can think that any point of our manifold $M$ admits a neighborhood that is conformally equivalent to an open set in $mathbb{S}^3$.



        If two such neighbohoods overlap then the corresponding gluing map between corresponding open sets in $mathbb{S}^3$ is a composition of inversions (Liouville's theorem).



        So after applying a composition of inversions to one of the open sets you can assume that the gluing map is identity.
        This way you can extend the parametrization of a neighborhood to an immersed neighborhood of any path.



        The composition of inversions at a neighborhhod of the end point of path depends continuously on the path and therefore has to be the same for homotopic paths.
        Since $M$ is simply connected it gives a well defined conformal immersion $Mhookrightarrow mathbb{S}^3$.






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        Since $mathbb{S}^3$ is conformally flat, we can think that any point of our manifold $M$ admits a neighborhood that is conformally equivalent to an open set in $mathbb{S}^3$.



        If two such neighbohoods overlap then the corresponding gluing map between corresponding open sets in $mathbb{S}^3$ is a composition of inversions (Liouville's theorem).



        So after applying a composition of inversions to one of the open sets you can assume that the gluing map is identity.
        This way you can extend the parametrization of a neighborhood to an immersed neighborhood of any path.



        The composition of inversions at a neighborhhod of the end point of path depends continuously on the path and therefore has to be the same for homotopic paths.
        Since $M$ is simply connected it gives a well defined conformal immersion $Mhookrightarrow mathbb{S}^3$.







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