The 3-manifold recognition problem

Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 358, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5257-5270

  Daverman, Robert J ^a   Thickstun, Thomas L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized 3 manifold; Locally 1 coconnected; Relative simplicial approximation; Resolvable; Simplicial approximation property; Tame embedding

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845795769     PISSN: 00029947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03786-4     Document Type: Article

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