Isotoping 2-spheres in 4-manifolds
Geometric Topology
2014-06-24 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
Here we discuss an example of topologically isotopic but smoothly non-isotopic pair of 2-spheres in a simply connected 4-manifold, which become smoothly isotopic after stabilizing by connected summing with S^2 x S^2.
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@article{arxiv.1406.5654,
title = {Isotoping 2-spheres in 4-manifolds},
author = {Selman Akbulut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5654},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures. Comment on arXiv:1406.4937