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Tico Spines

Geometric Topology 2016-10-25 v2

Abstract

Any bounding compact smooth manifold bounds a compact manifold with a spine consisting of transversely intersecting codimension one submanifolds. This paper provides details for a picture proof given in previous papers with S. Akbulut.

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@article{arxiv.1602.02608,
  title  = {Tico Spines},
  author = {Henry C. King},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.02608},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures

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