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h-Cobordism


An h-cobordism is a bordism W between two manifolds M_1 and M_2 such that W is simply connected and the inclusion maps M_1->W and M_2->W are homotopy equivalences.


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Weisstein, Eric W. "h-Cobordism." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/h-Cobordism.html

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