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Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Mathematics ((GTM,volume 47))

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When we call a space M a polyhedron, without mentioning another space in which it lies, we mean merely that M = |K| for some complex K. K may be a PL complex in the sense of Section 7.

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Moise, E.E. (1977). Covering spaces. In: Geometric Topology in Dimensions 2 and 3. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 47. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-9906-6_25

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