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Surgery on codimension $2$ submanifolds

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Michael H. Freedman

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1977; Volume 12, Number 191
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-2191-6 (print); 978-1-4704-0152-8 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0191
MathSciNet review: 0454990

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 0. Introduction and statement of main theorem (3.4)
  • 1. The codimension 2 intersection pairing, ($\lambda$, $\mu$)
  • 2. Taut submanifolds and branched-covers
  • 3. The construction of taut submanifolds