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Resolving zero-dimensional singularities in generalized manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. L. Bryant
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, U.S.A.
R. C. Lacher
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, U.S.A.

Extract

A generalized m-manifold is a euclidean neighbourhood retract X that is a homol-ogy m-manifold, i.e. for which H*(X, X–x;Z) = H*(Rm, Rm–0;Z) for each point x of X. In a generalized m-manifold X, a pointy is called singular, or a singularity of X, if p has no neighbourhood homeomorphic to Rm. We shall denote the set of singular points of X by S(X).

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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1978

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