This is a survey of results and open problems on compact 3-manifolds which admit spines corresponding to cyclic presentations of groups. We also discuss questions concerning spines of knot manifolds and regular neighborhoods of homotopically PL embedded compacta in 3-manifolds.
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Cavicchioli, Alberto; Hegenbarth, Friedrich; Repovš, Dušan. On manifold spines and cyclic presentations of groups. Banach Center Publications, Tome 43 (1998) pp. 49-56. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/bwmeta1.element.bwnjournal-article-bcpv42i1p49bwm/
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