Contractible open 3-manifolds which are not covering spaces

DOI10.1016/0040-9383(88)90005-5zbMath0658.57007OpenAlexW1979115848MaRDI QIDQ1111199

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-9383(88)90005-5

zbMATH Keywords

incompressibilityWhitehead manifoldcontractible open 3-manifold which is not homeomorphic to Euclidean 3-spacefixed-point free properly discontinuous group actionsuniversal cover of a compact 3-manifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Covering spaces and low-dimensional topology (57M10) Discontinuous groups of transformations (57S30)

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