Products of open manifolds with $\mathbb R$
Volume 197 / 2007
Fundamenta Mathematicae 197 (2007), 197-214
MSC: Primary 57N15, 57Q12.
DOI: 10.4064/fm197-0-8
Abstract
We present a characterization of those open $n$-manifolds ($n\geq 5$) whose products with the real line are homeomorphic to interiors of compact $(n+1)$-manifolds with boundary.
