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Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary and exotic embeddings

Geometric Topology 2024-08-16 v2 Differential Geometry Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We define family versions of the invariant of 4-manifolds with contact boundary due to Kronheimer and Mrowka and use these to detect exotic diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary. Further, we show the existence of the first example of exotic 3-spheres in a smooth closed 4-manifold with diffeomorphic complements.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14878,
  title  = {Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds with boundary and exotic embeddings},
  author = {Nobuo Iida and Hokuto Konno and Anubhav Mukherjee and Masaki Taniguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14878},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

45 pages, 2 figures, several parts (including Introduction) have been changed. To appear in Math. Ann