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A simple class of infinitely many absolutely exotic manifolds

Geometric Topology 2019-04-05 v3 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We show that the smooth 44-manifold MM obtained by attaching a 22-handle to B4B^4 along a certain knot KB4K\subset \partial B^4 admits infinitely many absolutely exotic copies MnM_n, n=0,1,2..n=0,1,2.., such that each copy MnM_n is obtained by attaching 22-handle to a fixed compact smooth contractible manifold WW along the iterates fn(c)f^{n}(c) of a knot cWc\subset \partial W by a diffeomorphism f:WWf:\partial W \to \partial W. This generalizes the example in author's 1991 paper, which corresponds to n=1n=1 case.

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@article{arxiv.1803.03256,
  title  = {A simple class of infinitely many absolutely exotic manifolds},
  author = {Selman Akbulut},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.03256},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages 8 figures