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A 3-manifold which is not a product

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

D. B. A. Epstein
Affiliation:
University of Warwick and University of Liverpool
G. P. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Warwick and University of Liverpool

Extract

The purpose of this note is to construct a non-compact 3-manifold M with the following properties:

(i) M is orientable and irreducible

(ii) ∂M is connected and compact and its inclusion in M is a homotopy equivalence

(iii) M is not homeomorphic to ∂M × R+.

(Throughout this paper, all manifolds will be PL and all embeddings will be PL and locally flat.)

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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