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Dwyer's filtration and topology of 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Topological 4-dimensional surgery is conjectured to fail, in general, for free fundamental groups. M. Freedman and P. Teichner have shown that surgery problems with an arbitrary fundamental group have a solution, provided they satisfy a certain condition on Dwyer's filtration on second homology. We give a new geometric proof of this result, and analyze its relation to the canonical surgery problems.

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@article{arxiv.math/0209225,
  title  = {Dwyer's filtration and topology of 4-manifolds},
  author = {Vyacheslav Krushkal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0209225},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

minor changes; to appear in Math. Res. Lett