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Søren Galatius, Oscar Randal-Williams, The Alexander Trick for Homology Spheres, International Mathematics Research Notices, Volume 2024, Issue 24, December 2024, Pages 14689–14703, https://doi.org/10.1093/imrn/rnae255
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We show that the group of homeomorphisms of a compact contractible |$d$|-manifold that 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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