On uniqueness of Cartesian products of surfaces with boundary (Q2577118)
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On uniqueness of Cartesian products of surfaces with boundary (English)
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16 December 2005
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The main result is that any compact, connected 4-manifold, possibly with boundary, has at most one decomposition into the product of prime 2-manifolds, a prime manifold being one which has no decomposition as a product of manifolds of lower dimension. By way of contrast the result fails if one factor is a closed interval; for example the products of a disc with two holes, respectively a torus with a hole, with a closed interval are homeomorphic.
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Cartesian product
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Künneth formula
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prime 2-manifold
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splitting theorem
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sufficiently large 3-manifold
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essential torus
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surface
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