Extensions of codimension one immersions

Pappas, Christian

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01572-3

Extensions of codimension one immersions
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by Christian Pappas

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 3065-3083

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01572-3

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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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