Abstract. We show that the earlier characterizations of pasting are strong enough to describe a construction, not only a decomposition. This construction is also compared with gluing and $S$-glued sum.

AMS Subject Classification (1991): 06B05, 06C05

Keyword(s): pasting, gluing, S-glued sum

Received June 27, 2001, and in final form August 16, 2005. (Registered under 5903/2009.)