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- Regular Neighborhood
- Finite Presentation
- Perfect Group
- Heegaard Diagram
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Huck, G. (1990). Embeddings of acyclic 2-complexes in S 4 with contractible complement. In: Latiolais, P. (eds) Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1440. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0084457
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