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Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds from graspers

Geometric Topology 2025-05-05 v3

Abstract

We relate degree one grasper families of embedded circles to various constructions of diffeomorphisms found in the literature -- theta clasper classes of Watanabe, barbell diffeomorphisms of Budney and Gabai, and twin twists of Gay and Hartman. We use a ``parameterised surgery map'' that for a smooth 4-manifold MM takes loops of framed embeddings of S1S^1 in the manifold obtained by surgery on some 2-sphere in MM, to the mapping class group of MM.

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@article{arxiv.2405.05822,
  title  = {Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds from graspers},
  author = {Danica Kosanović},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05822},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

29 pages, 18 figures. v2: Minor edits. v3: Major edits, improved exposition

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