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A counter-example to the three balls problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

W. B. R. Lickorish  and
C. P. Rourke
W. B. R. Lickorish
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge and Queen Mary College, London
C. P. Rourke
Affiliation:
Pembroke College, Cambridge and Queen Mary College, London
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We work throughout in the p.l. category (see (8)) consisting of polyhedra and p.l. (piecewise linear) maps. We are concerned with the following problem which is of importance in the theory of p.l. transversality.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 66 , Issue 1 , July 1969 , pp. 13 - 16
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969

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