Quickly unknotting topological spheres
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Abstract:
Locally flat topological sphere and cell pairs of codimension at least three are shown to be unknotted by a simpler method than previously known.References
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- © Copyright 1978 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 72 (1978), 413-416
- MSC: Primary 57N35; Secondary 57N50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1978-0507349-0
- MathSciNet review: 507349