Failure of the Dehn lemma on contractible 4-manifolds

DOI10.1007/BF01389914zbMath0389.57004WikidataQ124817615 ScholiaQ124817615MaRDI QIDQ1251015

Gerard A. Venema, Yukio Matsumoto

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142630

zbMATH Keywords

CONTRACTIBLE 4-MANIFOLDSDEHN LEMMA

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topology of complexes (57Q05) Simple homotopy type, Whitehead torsion, Reidemeister-Franz torsion, etc. (57Q10)

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