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spherical surgery, on a manifold of type

A transition from one -dimensional manifold to another manifold , consisting in deleting a sphere of dimension imbedded in and replacing it by an imbedded sphere of dimension . See Handle theory for details.


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Cf. also Morse surgery.

How to Cite This Entry:
Surgery. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Surgery&oldid=15749
This article was adapted from an original article by M.I. Voitsekhovskii (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article