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A class of open surfaces with algorithmically solvable homeomorphism problem

Geometric Topology 2024-04-03 v4

Abstract

We introduce a new class of possibly noncompact n-dimensional manifolds without boundary associated to finite data which we call topological automata. This class is large enough to contain many interesting examples of open 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional manifolds of interest to low-dimensional topologists. Our main result is that the homeomorphism problem in this class is decidable for n = 2.

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@article{arxiv.1209.2818,
  title  = {A class of open surfaces with algorithmically solvable homeomorphism problem},
  author = {Sylvain Maillot},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.2818},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Title, abstract have changed. Introduction and concluding remarks substantially rewritten

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