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Applications of Decomposition Theorems to Trivializing h-Cobordisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Math. College of Arts and Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70118
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Abstract

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A geometric proof is presented that, under certain restrictions, the product of an h-cobordism with a closed manifold of Euler characteristic zero is a product cobordism. The results utilize open book decompositions and round handle decompositions of manifolds.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , 01 September 1977 , pp. 389 - 391
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1977

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