Timeline for Contractible manifold with boundary - is it a disc?
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| Mar 27, 2010 at 18:46 | vote | accept | Sergei Ivanov | ||
| Mar 27, 2010 at 16:54 | answer | added | Anton Petrunin | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 23:38 | history | edited | Sergei Ivanov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
noticed that the first question is answered
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| Mar 19, 2010 at 23:25 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | If the boundary is a standard sphere then the contractible manifold has to be the standard disc. This is an h-cobordism theorem type argument -- puncture your contractible manifold, this gives an h-cobordism, etc. | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 23:21 | comment | added | Sergei Ivanov | I see. By the way, are there examples bounded by the standard sphere? | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 22:51 | history | edited | Sergei Ivanov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added a remark about distance function
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| Mar 19, 2010 at 22:43 | answer | added | Igor Belegradek | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 22:42 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | No. See the Wikipedia page on Mazur manifolds for examples and relevant history of your question. | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 22:32 | answer | added | Petya | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 19, 2010 at 22:03 | history | asked | Sergei Ivanov | CC BY-SA 2.5 |