A piecewise-linear method for triangulating 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(84)90050-1zbMath0542.57014OpenAlexW2041765223MaRDI QIDQ795379

Peter B. Shalen

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Advances in Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0001-8708(84)90050-1

zbMATH Keywords

Dehn's lemmaloop theoremtriangulating 3-manifoldsHauptvermutung for 3-manifoldsPL- approximations of homeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Embeddings and immersions in PL-topology (57Q35) Comparison of PL-structures: classification, Hauptvermutung (57Q25) Approximations in PL-topology (57Q55)

Related Items (4)

Three-manifolds. Classical results ⋮ Lipschitz and quasiconformal approximation of homeomorphism pairs ⋮ Smoothing finite group actions on three-manifolds ⋮ The topological s-cobordism theorem fails in dimension 4 or 5

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