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The homotopy Hauptvermutung is the conjecture that a (topological) homeomorphism between two PL (= piecewise linear) manifolds may be continuously deformed to a PL homeomorphism.
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Armstrong, M.A., Rourke, C.P., Cooke, G.E. (1996). The Princeton notes on the Hauptvermutung. In: Ranicki, A.A. (eds) The Hauptvermutung Book. K-Monographs in Mathematics, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3343-4_4
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