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We give general position theorems for polyhedra in manifolds and applications to unknotting in the stable range, piping and the Whitney lemma. The last two applications will be used in the proof of the h-cobordism theorem in the next chapter.
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Rourke, C.P., Sanderson, B.J. (1982). General Position and Applications. In: Introduction to Piecewise-Linear Topology. Springer Study Edition, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81735-9_5
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