paper

The triangulation of manifolds

arXiv:1310.7644

Abstract

A mostly expository account of old questions about the relationship between polyhedra and topological manifolds. Topics are old topological results, new gauge theory results (with speculations about next directions), and history of the questions.

26 pages, 2 figures. version 2: spellings corrected, analytic speculations in 4.8.2 sharpened