Gompf's cork and Heegaard Floer homology
Geometric Topology
2024-09-04 v2
Abstract
Gompf showed that for in a certain family of double-twist knots, the swallow-follow operation makes -surgery on into a cork boundary. We derive a general Floer-theoretic condition on 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