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A spherical decomposition for Riemannian open 3-manifolds

Sylvain Maillot

math.GTarXiv:math/0605335

Abstract

We show that open 3-manifolds that have a locally finite decomposition along 2-spheres are characterized by the existence of a Riemannian metric with respect to which the second homotopy group of the manifold is generated by small elements.

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