Linked pairs of contractible polyhedra in $S^ n$
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Abstract:
B. Mazur has described a geometrically linked pair of compact contractible polyhedra in ${S^4}$. In this note we exhibit an even more extreme type of linking between compact contractible polyhedra in ${S^n},n \geq 5$.References
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- © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 (1994), 1271-1274
- MSC: Primary 57N15; Secondary 57Q45
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1994-1205493-5
- MathSciNet review: 1205493