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The Alexander trick for homology spheres
Soren Galatius, Oscar Randal-Williams
Published 2023-08-29Version 1
We show that the group of homeomorphisms of a compact contractible $d$-manifold which fix the boundary is contractible, as long as $d \geq 6$. We deduce this from a strong uniqueness statement for one-sided $h$-cobordisms.
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