On Embedded 2-Spheres in 3-Manifolds.
Given a cohomology class there is a smooth submanifold Poincaré dual to . A special class of such embeddings is characterized by topological properties which hold for nonsingular algebraic hypersurfaces in . This note summarizes some results on the question: how does the divisibility of restrict the dual submanifolds in this class ? A formula for signatures associated with a -fold ramified cover of branched along is given and a proof is included in case .
We investigate the knots in the boundary of the punctured complex projective plane. Our result gives an affirmative answer to a question raised by Suzuki. As an application, we answer to a question by Mathieu.