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Geoffroy Horel
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Contractibility of the space of collars

I'm looking for a reference or a proof of the following statement :

Let $M$ be a smooth manifold with boundary, the space of embeddings $\partial M\times[0,1)\to M$ inducing the identity on the boundary is contractible.

Geoffroy Horel
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