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Compact contractible<i>n</i>-manifolds have arc spines (<i>n</i>≥ 5)

Fredric D. Ancel, Craig R. Guilbault

Pacific Journal of Mathematics · 1995 · 16 citations · 9 references

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The following two theorems were motivated by questions about the existence of disjoint spines in compact contractible manifolds.

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