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Does there always exist a sequence of handle moves between handle decompositions that does not increase index? (+ ref. request)
Reference request: Firstly, I'm looking for a proof of the following well-known result about handle decompositions:
($\ast$) Given two handle decompositions of a smooth $n$-manifold $M$, there ...
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