In mathematics, the Zeeman conjecture or Zeeman's collapsibility conjecture asks whether given a finite contractible 2-dimensional CW complex , the space is collapsible. It can nowadays be restated as the claim that for any 2-complex G which is homotopic to a point, there is an interval I such that some barycentric subdivision of G × I is contractible.[1]
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The conjecture, due to Christopher Zeeman, implies the Poincaré conjecture and the Andrews–Curtis conjecture.
References
- ^ Adiprasito; Benedetti (2012), Subdivisions, shellability, and the Zeeman conjecture, arXiv:1202.6606v2 Corollary 3.5
- 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
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