Embedding phenomena based upon decomposition theory: an unusual cellular 2-cell

Daverman, Robert J.

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0529238-9

Embedding phenomena based upon decomposition theory: an unusual cellular $2$-cell
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Abstract:

We construct a 2-cell D cellularly embedded in the n-sphere ${S^n},n \geqslant 5$, and locally flatly embedded at each of its interior points, but the boundary of which fails to be weakly flat.

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