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Triangulating and recognising PL homology manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. Ayala
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Faculdad de Matemáticas, Tarfia, s/n 41012-Sevilla, Spain
A. Quintero
Affiliation:
Departamento de Geometría y Topología, Faculdad de Matemáticas, Tarfia, s/n 41012-Sevilla, Spain
W. J. R. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Magdalene College, Cambridge, CB3 OAG

Abstract

An earlier recognition theorem of one of the authors is extended to the bounded case, and conditions yielding concordance of triangulations are established.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1988

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