Open aspherical manifolds not covered by the Euclidean space
Geometric Topology
2014-08-06 v3
Abstract
We show that any open aspherical manifold of dimension n>3 is tangentially homotopy equivalent to an n-manifold whose universal cover is not homeomorphic to the Euclidean space.
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@article{arxiv.1208.5666,
title = {Open aspherical manifolds not covered by the Euclidean space},
author = {Igor Belegradek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5666},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
3 pages, minor revision