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Topology of cell complexes and manifolds, classification of manifolds (e.g. smoothing, surgery), low dimensional topology (e.g. knot theory, invariants of 4-manifolds), embedding theory, combinatorial and PL topology, geometric group theory, infinite dimensional topology (e.g. Hilbert cube manifolds, theory of retracts).

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Stallings' binding tie

I came to know that the statement below could be proved using Stallings' binding tie argument, though I have no reference article proving the statement by the binding tie argument. Can anyone help me …
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Characterization of a non-trivial non-peripheral element of the free homotopy classes of a c...

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact orientable connected $2$-manifold with a non-empty boundary. Let $\widehat \pi(\Sigma)$ denote the set of free homotopy classes of curves in $\Sigma$. We say $x\in \widehat \ …
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If the number of ends of Freudenthal space is infinite, then its space of ends is homeomorph...

I don't know whether this is the right place to discuss a part of someone's thesis or not. If it is wrong, let me know; I will delete my post. I am reading this thesis. Corollary 4.1.15. on page 63 sa …
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Classification of degree one map between two closed orientable surfaces without using induct...

A theorem of Edmonds (see Theorem 3.1. of "Deformation of Maps to Branched Coverings in Dimension Two") says that Theorem 1: A degree-one map between closed orientable surfaces is homotopic to a pinch …
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In which dimensions is it true that every topological ball embedded by a smoothly embedded s...

I asked a question on MSE with no answer. Here is my question in the generalized version. Question 1: Suppose we are given a connected three-manifold $M$ (possibly non-compact, or non-orientable) and …
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A closed curve can be homotopic to remove all intersections with a filling $\Gamma$ if it ha...

Let $\Sigma$ be a compact oriented connected bordered surface other than the pair of pants. Let $\Gamma:=\{\gamma_i\}$ be a finite collection of simple closed curves on $\Sigma$ such that each compone …
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Inequivalent free $\Bbb Z/n\Bbb Z$-actions on orientable compact bordered surface

Let $S_{g,b}$ denote the orientable connected compact surface of genus $g$ with $b$ boundary components. A group homomorphism $\varphi\colon G\to \text{Homeo}^+(S_{g,b})$ is said to be free $G$-acti …
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Isotopic homeomorphisms of surface induces same map on the space of ends

Let $\Sigma$ be a non-compact orientable connected two-manifold without boundary. Let $f,g\colon \Sigma\to \Sigma$ be two homeomorphisms. Suppose there is a homotopy $H\colon \Sigma\times [0,1]\to \Si …
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The fundamental group of the complement of badly embedded open $n$-ball in $\Bbb R^n$

Let $\mathcal D^n$ be an open subset of $\Bbb R^n$ such that $\mathcal D^n$ is homeomorphic to $\{x\in \Bbb R^n:|x|<1\}$. Suppose $\Bbb R^n\setminus \mathcal D^n$ is path-connected. How bad can $\pi …
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Earliest known proof of "Any degree one self-map of an orientable connected finite-type non-...

I attended a talk where the speaker said the following is due to Nielsen. I searched here and there but couldn't find the corresponding paper, if any. So, what is the earliest known proof of the follo …
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Transversal pre-image of a small enough trivial tubular neighborhood contains a trivial tubu...

A similar post on MSE without answer. Let $f\colon M'\to M$ be a smooth map between two orientable closed smooth manifolds and $S$ be a smoothly embedded closed orientable submanifold of $M$ of co-dim …
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Vanishing of Goldman bracket requires simple-closed representative?

Let $\Sigma$ be a connected oriented surface, and $[-,-]\colon \Bbb Z\big[\widehat\pi(\Sigma)\big]\times Z\big[\widehat\pi(\Sigma)\big]\to Z\big[\widehat\pi(\Sigma)\big]$ be the Goldman Bracket. Note …
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Non-compact three-manifolds with the same proper homotopy type are homeomorphic?

I am looking for some literature with some (counter) examples of the following fact (though I don't know if the fact is true or not): Let $M, M'$ be two non-compact connected $3$-manifolds with the s …
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Example of a non $\pi_1$-injective, degree one, self-map of a three-manifold

All manifolds will be assumed to be closed, oriented, and connected. Let $f\colon M\to M$ be a map of degree $\pm 1$. It is not hard to show that $\pi_1(f)$ is surjective. What is an example of a non …
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