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Gompf's cork and Heegaard Floer homology

Geometric Topology 2024-09-04 v2

Abstract

Gompf showed that for KK in a certain family of double-twist knots, the swallow-follow operation makes 1/n1/n-surgery on K#KK \# -K into a cork boundary. We derive a general Floer-theoretic condition on KK under which this is the case. Our formalism allows us to produce many further examples of corks, partially answering a question of Gompf. Unlike Gompf's method, our proof does not rely on any closed 4-manifold invariants or effective embeddings, and also generalizes to other diffeomorphisms.

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@article{arxiv.2312.08258,
  title  = {Gompf's cork and Heegaard Floer homology},
  author = {Irving Dai and Abhishek Mallick and Ian Zemke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08258},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

21 pages; 7 figures. Final version; to appear in International Mathematics Research Notices