Gluck twisting 4-manifolds with odd intersection form
Geometric Topology
2013-04-09 v3
Abstract
We give a simple criterion when a Gluck twisting an odd smooth 4-manifold along a 2-sphere does not change its diffeomorphism type. We obtain this by handlebody techniques and plug twisting operation, getting a slightly stronger version of the known fact that Gluck twisting of a 2-sphere of a compact smooth 4-manifold with an odd spherical class, in the complement of S, does not change the diffeomorphism type of X. This is the best possible result on Gluck twisting manifolds with odd homology classes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1205.6038,
title = {Gluck twisting 4-manifolds with odd intersection form},
author = {Selman Akbulut and Kouichi Yasui},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.6038},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, minor changes