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A global invertibility theorem for manifolds with boundary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Alan Weinstein
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, U.S.A.

Synopsis

A local homeomorphism from a compact, connected manifold with boundary to a simply connected manifold without boundary is shown to be one-to-one if it is one-to-one on each component of the boundary.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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