The s-cobordism theorem seen as a particular case of Latour's theorem

Abstract

We show how Latour's theorem can be understood as a natural generalization of the $s$-cobordism theorem for cohomology classes $u\in H^1(M;\mathbb{R})$. The $s$-cobordism theorem becomes a special degenerate case when $u=0$.

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