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On Periodicity in Topological Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Slawomir Kwasik*
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
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One of the distinguishing features of the topological category is the following periodicity in the set of homotopy TOP structures on X.

THEOREM (Siebenmann). Let Xm, m ≦ 5, be a connected compact topological manifold with non-empty boundary. Then

It was conjectured by Siebenmann (see [3], p. 283) that the analogous periodicity should also exist for noncompact manifolds.

The purpose of this paper is to prove that this is indeed the case, namely:

THEOREM 1. Let Let Xm, m ≦ 6, be a connected noncompact topological manifold with non-empty boundary. Then

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1986

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