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Cobordant Manifold


Cobordant manifolds, in the unoriented category of smooth manifolds, are two closed manifolds M and M^' of the same dimension n whose disjoint union is diffeomorphic to the entire boundary of a compact manifold with boundary W of dimension n+1 (Milnor 1965, p. 42; Miller 2021, p. 277). Here closed means compact and without boundary.


See also

Bordism, h-Cobordism Theorem, Morse Theory

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References

Miller, H. Lectures on Algebraic Topology. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, p. 277, Aug. 27, 2021. https://math.mit.edu/~hrm/papers/lectures-905-906.pdf.Milnor, J. W. Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, p. 42, 1965. https://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2017/MilnorDiff.pdf.

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