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Fundamental groups and cellular walks
Suppose $M$ is a smooth manifold (compact if desired) with a cell structure or other nice stratification.
Call a path $\gamma : [0,1] \to M$ transverse to the stratification if there is a finite ...
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Realizing an amalgamated product of groups by splitting a closed manifold along a codimension 1 submanifold
In the paper "A splitting theorem for manifolds" by S.E. Cappell,
https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/capsplit.pdf
the following "inverse" of the Seifert-van Kampen theorem for closed ...
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Fundamental group of a compact manifold
Why is the fundamental group of a compact manifold finitely presented?
