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On manifold spines and cyclic presentations of groups

Authors 1, 2, 3

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Modena, Via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena, Italy
  2. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Milano, Via C. Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
  3. Institute of Mathematics, University of Ljubljana, P.O. Box 2964, Ljubljana 1001, Slovenia

Abstract

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.

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Banach Center Publications
1998/42/1
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Pages:
49-56
Main language of publication
English
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences