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A characterization of piecewise linear homology manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. J. R. Mitchell
W. J. R. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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We state and prove a theorem which characterizes piecewise linear homology manifolds of sufficiently large dimension among locally compact finite-dimensional absolute neighbourhood retracts (ANRs). The proof is inspired by Cannon's observation (3) that a piecewise linear homology manifold is a topological manifold away from a locally finite set, and uses Galewski and Stern's work on simplicial triangulations of topological manifolds, the Edwards–Cannon–Quinn characterization of topological manifolds and Siebenmann's work on ends (3, 6, 4, 13, 14, 15, 16). All these tools have suitable relative versions and so the theorem can be extended to the bounded case. However, the most satisfactory extension requires a classification of triangulations of homology manifolds up to concordance. This will be given in a subsequent paper and the bounded case will be postponed to that paper.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , March 1983 , pp. 271 - 274
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1983

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