Transactions of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): Christian Pappas
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 3065-3083.
MSC (1991): Primary 57R42
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Abstract: We give a method for constructing all of the extensions of an immersion, and determine the CW structure and diffeomorphism type of each.

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Christian Pappas
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720
Email: pappas@math.berkeley.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01572-3
PII: S 0002-9947(96)01572-3
Keywords: Extensions, immersions, codimension one, Morse theory
Received by editor(s): January 1, 1995
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society

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