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Is a manifold-with-boundary with given interior and non-empty boundary essentially unique?
Announcing the arrival of Valued Associate #679: Cesar Manara
Planned maintenance scheduled April 17/18, 2019 at 00:00UTC (8:00pm US/Eastern)How does the Lefschetz-Poincare dual torsion linking pairing on manifolds with boundary interact with the maps of the long exact sequence of the manifold-boundary pair?fundamental domain of universal coveringhomotopy type of embeddings versus diffeomorphismsDoes a *topological* manifold have an exhaustion by compact submanifolds with boundary?Is the complement of the ends of a manifold bounded?On compact, orientable 3-manifolds with non-empty boundaryManifolds from fundamental piecesRemove a disc from a manifold. When is the resulting sphere nullhomotopic?Can we cut and rotate a particular region of a hyperbolic 3-manifold to get another (non-homeomorphic) hyperbolic 3-manifold?Irreducible separators of compact manifolds
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Let $M$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ M neq emptyset$, where $circ M$ is the boundary of $M$. Let $N$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ N neq emptyset$ and $bullet M approx bullet N$, where $bullet M$ denotes the interior of $M$ and $approx$ denotes homeomorphic. Does it necessarily hold that $N approx M$?
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Let $M$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ M neq emptyset$, where $circ M$ is the boundary of $M$. Let $N$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ N neq emptyset$ and $bullet M approx bullet N$, where $bullet M$ denotes the interior of $M$ and $approx$ denotes homeomorphic. Does it necessarily hold that $N approx M$?
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Let $M$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ M neq emptyset$, where $circ M$ is the boundary of $M$. Let $N$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ N neq emptyset$ and $bullet M approx bullet N$, where $bullet M$ denotes the interior of $M$ and $approx$ denotes homeomorphic. Does it necessarily hold that $N approx M$?
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Let $M$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ M neq emptyset$, where $circ M$ is the boundary of $M$. Let $N$ be a compact connected manifold-with-boundary such that $circ N neq emptyset$ and $bullet M approx bullet N$, where $bullet M$ denotes the interior of $M$ and $approx$ denotes homeomorphic. Does it necessarily hold that $N approx M$?
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No, there are examples detected by Whitehead torsion. If $P$ is a compact connected $(n-1)$-manifold with empty boundary, then (assuming $nge 5$) for every element $tau$ of the Whitehead group of $pi_1(P)$ there is an $h$-cobordism $M$ on $P$ such that $tau$ is the Whitehead torsion of the pair $(M,P)$. The interior of $M$ will be isomorphic to $Ptimesmathbb R$, but if $tau$ is nontrivial then $M$ will not be isomorphic to $Ptimes I$.
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No, there are examples detected by Whitehead torsion. If $P$ is a compact connected $(n-1)$-manifold with empty boundary, then (assuming $nge 5$) for every element $tau$ of the Whitehead group of $pi_1(P)$ there is an $h$-cobordism $M$ on $P$ such that $tau$ is the Whitehead torsion of the pair $(M,P)$. The interior of $M$ will be isomorphic to $Ptimesmathbb R$, but if $tau$ is nontrivial then $M$ will not be isomorphic to $Ptimes I$.
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No, there are examples detected by Whitehead torsion. If $P$ is a compact connected $(n-1)$-manifold with empty boundary, then (assuming $nge 5$) for every element $tau$ of the Whitehead group of $pi_1(P)$ there is an $h$-cobordism $M$ on $P$ such that $tau$ is the Whitehead torsion of the pair $(M,P)$. The interior of $M$ will be isomorphic to $Ptimesmathbb R$, but if $tau$ is nontrivial then $M$ will not be isomorphic to $Ptimes I$.
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No, there are examples detected by Whitehead torsion. If $P$ is a compact connected $(n-1)$-manifold with empty boundary, then (assuming $nge 5$) for every element $tau$ of the Whitehead group of $pi_1(P)$ there is an $h$-cobordism $M$ on $P$ such that $tau$ is the Whitehead torsion of the pair $(M,P)$. The interior of $M$ will be isomorphic to $Ptimesmathbb R$, but if $tau$ is nontrivial then $M$ will not be isomorphic to $Ptimes I$.
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No, there are examples detected by Whitehead torsion. If $P$ is a compact connected $(n-1)$-manifold with empty boundary, then (assuming $nge 5$) for every element $tau$ of the Whitehead group of $pi_1(P)$ there is an $h$-cobordism $M$ on $P$ such that $tau$ is the Whitehead torsion of the pair $(M,P)$. The interior of $M$ will be isomorphic to $Ptimesmathbb R$, but if $tau$ is nontrivial then $M$ will not be isomorphic to $Ptimes I$.
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