On contractible orbifolds

2011/10/04 by Alexander Lytchak, Lytchak, Alexander
Mathematics · #57R18 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1110.0590

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Abstract

We prove that a contractible orbifold is a manifold.

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