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Geometric rank and the Tucker property. (English) Zbl 1369.57035

Let \(V^{3}\) be an open \(3\)-manifold and \(B^{n}\) the ball of dimension \(n.\) Suppose that a manifold \(W^{n+3}\) has a handlebody decomposition with finitely many \(1\)-handles. The author proves that if there exist a positive integer \(n\) and such a manifold \(W^{n+3}\) such that \(V^{3}\subset W^{n+3}\subset V^{3}\times B^{n},\) where the latter inclusion is proper, then \(\pi _{1}(V^{3}-C)\) is finitely generated for any compact and connected submanifold \(C\subset V.\)

MSC:

57R65 Surgery and handlebodies
57Q15 Triangulating manifolds
57N35 Embeddings and immersions in topological manifolds
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