Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls
Geometric Topology
2019-02-25 v1
Abstract
Fintushel and Stern showed that the Brieskorn sphere bounds a rational homology ball, while its non-trivial Rokhlin invariant obstructs it from bounding an integral homology ball. It is known that their argument can be modified to show that the figure-eight knot is rationally slice, and we use this fact to provide the first additional examples of Brieskorn spheres that bound rational homology balls but not integral homology balls: the families and for odd. We also provide handlebody diagrams for a rational homology ball containing a rationally slice disk for the figure-eight knot, as well as for a rational homology ball bounded by . These handle diagrams necessarily contain 3-handles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1704.07739,
title = {Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls},
author = {Selman Akbulut and Kyle Larson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07739},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
8 pages, 8 figures