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Whitehead torsion of inertial h-cobordisms

Geometric Topology 2017-11-15 v1

Abstract

We study the Whitehead torsions of inertial h-cobordisms, and identify various types representing a nested sequence of subsets of the Whitehead group. A number of examples are given to show that these subsets are all different in general.

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@article{arxiv.1711.04546,
  title  = {Whitehead torsion of inertial h-cobordisms},
  author = {Bjørn Jahren and Slawomir Kwasik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.04546},
  year   = {2017}
}