BordismA relation between Compact boundaryless Manifolds (also called closedManifolds). Two closed Manifolds are bordant Iff their disjoint union is theboundary of a compact -Manifold. Roughly, two Manifolds are bordant if together theyform the boundary of a Manifold. The word bordism is now used in place of the original term Cobordism. References
Budney, R. ``The Bordism Project.'' http://math.cornell.edu/~rybu/bordism/bordism.html.
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