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Zeeman conjecture

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In mathematics, the Zeeman conjecture or Zeeman's collapsibility conjecture asks whether given a finite contractible 2-complex the space is collapsible.

The conjecture implies the Poincaré conjecture and the Andrews–Curtis conjecture.

References

  • Matveev, Sergei (2007), "1.3.4 Zeeman's Collapsing Conjecture", Algorithmic Topology and Classification of 3-Manifolds, Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol. 9, Springer, pp. 46–58, ISBN 9783540458999