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Exotic Dehn twists and homotopy coherent group actions

Geometric Topology 2024-09-27 v2

Abstract

We consider the question of extending a smooth homotopy coherent finite cyclic group action on the boundary of a smooth 4-manifold to its interior. As a result, we prove that Dehn twists along any Seifert homology sphere, except the 3-sphere, on their simply connected positive-definite fillings are infinite order exotic.

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@article{arxiv.2409.11806,
  title  = {Exotic Dehn twists and homotopy coherent group actions},
  author = {Sungkyung Kang and JungHwan Park and Masaki Taniguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11806},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages; minor changes, comments welcome