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May 7, 2019 at 17:17 vote accept Danny Ruberman
May 7, 2019 at 17:17
Dec 5, 2018 at 2:29 vote accept Danny Ruberman
Dec 5, 2018 at 2:29
Mar 21, 2018 at 13:06 comment added Danny Ruberman @Bombyxmori: Same Davis, different manifold. The ones you are thinking of are closed aspherical manifolds of dimension $\geq 4$ whose universal covers are not simply connected at $\infty$. Davis, Michael W. Groups generated by reflections and aspherical manifolds not covered by Euclidean space. Ann. of Math. (2) 117 (1983), no. 2, 293-324.
Mar 21, 2018 at 3:54 comment added Bombyx mori @IgorRivin: I see. I was told by Tam it is something similar.
Mar 21, 2018 at 3:36 comment added Igor Rivin @Bombyxmori No, it is nothing like the Whitehead manifold - look at the link in Danny's answeer.
Mar 21, 2018 at 3:20 comment added Bombyx mori Is the Davis manifold another non-trivial contractible manifold but not homeomorphic to $\mathbb{R}^{4}$, like the Whitehead manifold? I feel kind of amazed.
Mar 21, 2018 at 2:49 history answered Danny Ruberman CC BY-SA 3.0