The shrinkability of Bing-Whitehead decompositions

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(89)90010-4zbMath0679.57006OpenAlexW2065832306MaRDI QIDQ1822804

Michael P. Starbird, Fredric D. Ancel

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(89)90010-4

zbMATH Keywords

Casson handleshrinkable decompositionnondegenerate elementstoroidal, cell-like decompositions of 3-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quotient spaces, decompositions in general topology (54B15)

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