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cobordism

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Manifolds and cobordisms

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A manifold with boundary is a cobordism between its boundary components. But each component must be designated as a source or target component, so the entire cobordism may be seen as a morphism from a source manifold to a target manifold.

Dual to a cobordism is a bordism?.

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Revised on November 8, 2012 23:50:57 by Urs Schreiber (82.169.65.155)

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