Piecewise linear critical levels and collapsing
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Abstract:
In this paper the idea of collapsing, and the associated idea of handle cancellation, in a piecewise linear manifold are used to produce a version of Morse theory for piecewise linear embeddings. As an application of this it is shown that, if $n > 2$, there exist triangulations of the $n$-ball that are not simplicially collapsible.References
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- © Copyright 1972 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 170 (1972), 415-424
- MSC: Primary 57C35
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1972-0310899-2
- MathSciNet review: 0310899