Thursday, 13 August 2015

gt.geometric topology - Are non-PL manifolds CW-complexes?

Kirby and Siebenmann's paper "On the triangulation of manifolds and the Hauptvermutung" Bull AMS 75 (1969) is the standard reference for this, I believe.



The result is that compact topological manifolds have the homotopy-type of CW-complexes, to be precise.

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