Surgery
From Encyclopedia of Mathematics
spherical surgery, on a manifold of type 
A transition from one 
-dimensional manifold 
to another manifold 
, consisting in deleting a sphere of dimension 
imbedded in 
and replacing it by an imbedded sphere of dimension 
. See Handle theory for details.
Comments
Cf. also Morse surgery.
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Surgery. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Surgery&oldid=15749
Surgery. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Surgery&oldid=15749
This article was adapted from an original article by M.I. Voitsekhovskii (originator), which appeared in Encyclopedia of Mathematics - ISBN 1402006098. See original article