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Relative Combinatorial Asphericity

Geometric Topology 2021-01-19 v2

Abstract

Relative notions of combinatorial asphericity have been used to prove that injective labeled oriented trees (which encode spines of ribbon 2-knots) are aspherical. This article presents an overview and comparison of the different notions of relative combinatorial asphericity. It also contains new results concerning characterizations of relative DR and tests that imply relative combinatorial asphericity. The last section of the article is devoted to examples that illustrate the concepts and the use of the tests given.

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@article{arxiv.1904.08253,
  title  = {Relative Combinatorial Asphericity},
  author = {Stephan Rosebrock and Jens Harlander},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08253},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

20 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1212.1943, arXiv:1903.04653

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