J Austral Math Soc Ser A 55 pp132--136, 1993.

On Spines of 3-Manifolds with Boundary

C. McA. Gordon

(Received 5 August 1992)

Abstract

We give a simple necessary and sufficient condition for the inclusion map of a subpolyhedron into a compact 3-manifold with non-empty boundary to be a homotopy equivalence.

1991 AMS Subject Classification: 57N10

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C. McA. Gordon: Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712-1082, U.S.A.

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