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Cyclic Group Actions on Contractible 4-Manifolds

Geometric Topology 2017-08-29 v2 Algebraic Topology

Abstract

There are known infinite families of Brieskorn homology 3-spheres which can be realized as boundaries of smooth contractible 4-manifolds. In this paper we show that free periodic actions on these Brieskorn spheres do not extend smoothly over a contractible 4-manifold. We give a new infinite family of examples in which the actions extend locally linearly but not smoothly.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5877,
  title  = {Cyclic Group Actions on Contractible 4-Manifolds},
  author = {Nima Anvari and Ian Hambleton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5877},
  year   = {2017}
}

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20 pages: final version, to appear in Geometry & Topology

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