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Handlebody decompositions for G-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

M.J. Field
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia.
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Abstract

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We construct handle-bundle decompositions of compact G-manifolds, G a compact Lie group, that are particularly well adapted to the orbit structure of the group action.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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