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On Contractible Open Manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. R. McMillan  and
E. C. Zeeman
D. R. McMillan
Affiliation:
Florida State University
E. C. Zeeman
Affiliation:
Gonville and Caius CollegeCambridge
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By an open manifold we mean a non-compact space, that is triangulable by a countable complex which is a combinatorial manifold without boundary (see next section).

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 58 , Issue 2 , April 1962 , pp. 221 - 224
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1962

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