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f -vectors of 3-manifolds.

Lutz, Frank H., Sulanke, Thom, Swartz, Ed (2009)

The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics [electronic only]

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Products of open manifolds with ℝ

Craig R. Guilbault (2007)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We present a characterization of those open n-manifolds (n ≥ 5) whose products with the real line are homeomorphic to interiors of compact (n+1)-manifolds with boundary.

A short introduction to shadows of 4-manifolds

Francesco Costantino (2005)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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We give a self-contained introduction to the theory of shadows as a tool to study smooth 3-manifolds and 4-manifolds. The goal of the present paper is twofold: on the one hand, it is intended to be a shortcut to a basic use of the theory of shadows, on the other hand it gives a sketchy overview of some of the most recent results on shadows. No original result is proved here and most of the details of the proofs are left out.

Group-theoretic conditions under which closed aspherical manifolds are covered by Euclidean space

Hanspeter Fischer, David G. Wright (2003)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

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Hass, Rubinstein, and Scott showed that every closed aspherical (irreducible) 3-manifold whose fundamental group contains the fundamental group of a closed aspherical surface, is covered by Euclidean space. This theorem does not generalize to higher dimensions. However, we provide geometric tools with which variations of this theorem can be proved in all dimensions.

On manifold spines and cyclic presentations of groups

Alberto Cavicchioli, Friedrich Hegenbarth, Dušan Repovš (1998)

Banach Center Publications

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This is a survey of results and open problems on compact 3-manifolds which admit spines corresponding to cyclic presentations of groups. We also discuss questions concerning spines of knot manifolds and regular neighborhoods of homotopically PL embedded compacta in 3-manifolds.