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On sunny collapsing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. F. P. Hudson
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, Cambridge

Extract

The technique of sunny collapsing was introduced by Zeeman in (1) in order to prove the unknotting of PL ball pairs with co-dimension ≥ 3. Since then the technique has been used a number of times. In each case the method was used to prove special cases of the Theorem in this paper. Apart from providing a more unified treatment of various applications of this one technique, the theorem has important applications to the theory of relative regular neighbourhoods.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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(1)Zeeman, E. C.Unknotting combinatorial balls. Ann. of Math. 78 (1963), 501526.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
(2)Hudson, J. F. P. and Lickorish, W. B. R. Extending PL concordances (to appear).Google Scholar
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