nLab piecewise-linear manifold

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Manifolds and cobordisms

Geometry

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A piecewise-linear manifold, or PL manifold for short, is a manifold whose transition functions are piecewise linear functions?.

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Branched covers:

Every nn-dimensional PL manifold is a branched cover of the n-sphere:

All PL 4-manifolds are simple branched covers of the 4-sphere:

The n-torus for n3n \geq 3 is not a cyclic branched cover of the n-sphere:

  • U. Hirsch, W. D. Neumann, On cyclic branched coverings of spheres, Math. Ann. (1975) 215: 289 (doi:10.1007/BF01343895)

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