Contractible open 3-manifolds which are not covering spaces

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(88)90005-5zbMATH Open0658.57007OpenAlexW1979115848MaRDI QIDQ1111199FDOQ1111199

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(88)90005-5

zbMATH Keywords

incompressibilityWhitehead manifoldcontractible open 3-manifold which is not homeomorphic to Euclidean 3-spacefixed-point free properly discontinuous group actionsuniversal cover of a compact 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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• Contractible 3-manifolds and the double 3-space property
• Distinguishing Bing-Whitehead Cantor sets
• Contractible open manifolds which are not covering spaces
• Some contractible open manifolds and coverings of manifolds in dimension three
• On some open 3-manifolds that are branched coverings of the Poincaré homology sphere
• Ends, Shapes, and Boundaries in Manifold Topology and Geometric Group Theory

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