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Constructing Locally Flat Embeddings of Infinite Dimensional Manifolds without Tubular Neighborhoods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

T. A. Chapman*
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University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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All spaces in this paper will be separable and metric. A closed embedding i: M → TV is said to be locally flat (of codimension n) if for each x0M there is an open set U in M containing xo and an open embedding h: U X RnN for which h(x, 0) = i(x), for all xU.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1978

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