A tubular neighborhood of a smooth embedded submanifold is a neighborhood identified with a neighborhood of the zero section in its normal bundle. Radial deformation of punctured fibers gives the sphere bundle, and excision identifies the associated pair with a normal disk-bundle pair.
A tubular neighborhood is a concept from differential topology, which refers to a certain kind of neighborhood around a submanifold within a manifold.
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