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John Pardon
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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 compact smooth manifold with boundary. Then the space of embeddings $\partial M\times[0,1]\to M$ inducing the identity $\partial M\times\{0\}\to \partial M$ is contractible.

Geoffroy Horel
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