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Unknotting tori in codimension one and spheres in codimension two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

C. T. C. Wall
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Oxford

Extract

We shall present this paper in the framework and terminology of differential topology though all our arguments are valid in the piecewise linear ease also, under local un-knottedness hypotheses. In particular we use Rp for Euclidean space of dimension p, Sp−1 for the standard unit sphere in it, and Dp for the disc which it bounds.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1965

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