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In the area of mathematics known as differential topology, the disc theorem of Palais (1960) states that two embeddings of a closed k-disc into a connected n-manifold are ambient isotopic provided that if k = n the two embeddings are equioriented.

The disc theorem implies that the connected sum of smooth oriented manifolds is well defined.

References

  • Palais, Richard S. (1960), "Extending diffeomorphisms", Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 11: 274–277, doi:10.2307/2032968, ISSN 0002-9939, JSTOR 2032968, MR 0117741
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