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On embedding 4-manifolds in R7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Morris W. Hirsch
Affiliation:
University of California

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Let M denote a connected, compact, unbounded, piecewise linear (= P L) manifold of dimension 4. Denote by the normal Stiefel-Whitney class in dimension 3, with integer coefficients (twisted if M is not orientable).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1965

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