Locally flat PL submanifolds with codimension two
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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We refer the reader to the IHES notes of Zeeman (14) for basic facts about PL (or piecewise-linear) manifolds. If Mm is a locally flat PL-submanifold of Qm+2, our object will be to study the normal structure of M in Q: one of our main results is:
There exists a PL-bundle over M, with fibre a 2-simplex, which is PL-homeomorphic to a neighbourhood of M in Q; moreover, the bundle and homeomorphism are unique up to equivalence. We also make an application to smoothing theory.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 5 - 8
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