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On Mazur's telescoping argument

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Speaker: 
David Gabai
Affiliation: 
Princeton University
Date: 
Fri, 21/10/2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall

In 1958 Mazur gave a remarkable telescoping argument to show that a smooth 3-sphere in 4-space bounds a topological 4-ball.  We discuss some applications of his argument.

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