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On Kneser's conjecture for bounded 3-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Wolfgang Heil
Wolfgang Heil
Affiliation:
The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, U.S.A.
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1. The classical Kneser conjecture states that if M is a closed 3-manifold and π1(M) ≈ A * B, a free product, then there exist 3-manifolds MA, MB such that

and π1(MA) ≈ A, π1(MB) ≈ B. This has been proved by John Stallings(6).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , March 1972 , pp. 243 - 246
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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