A piecewise-linear method for triangulating 3-manifolds

DOI10.1016/0001-8708(84)90050-1MaRDI QIDQ795379zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

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