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A summary of results and problems concerning flatness of codimension one spheres in En

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  • Mapping Cylinder
  • Geometrical Topology
  • Complementary Domain
  • Local Flatness
  • Flat Embedding

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Daverman, R.J. (1975). A summary of results and problems concerning flatness of codimension one spheres in En . In: Glaser, L.C., Rushing, T.B. (eds) Geometric Topology. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0066113

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