Some contractible open manifolds and cov
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F.C. Tinsley; David G. Wright
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## McMillan has shown that every irreducible, contractible, open 3-manifold is the monotone union of handlebodies (only 0-and l-handles) and that there are uncountably many such manifolds. Work by Myers and Wright shows that no irreducible, contractible, open 3-manifold different from I@ can nontr