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The Piecewise-Linear Structure of Euclidean Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

John Stallings
John Stallings
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Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University
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It is known that, for n ≤3, ‘ought to have’ can truthfully be replaced by ‘has’ (see (4), and (5), Cor. 6·6). In this paper, this conjecture will be proved for n ≥ 5. The only unsolved case then will be in dimension four.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , July 1962 , pp. 481 - 488
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1962

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