Knot surgery and Scharlemann manifolds
Geometric Topology
2015-03-17 v3 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We discuss the relation between Fintushel-Stern knot surgery operation on 4-manifolds and Scharlemann manifolds, and as a corollary show that they all are standard. Along the way we show that the fishtail can exotically knot in the 4-sphere infinitely many ways.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.6274,
title = {Knot surgery and Scharlemann manifolds},
author = {Selman Akbulut},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.6274},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 9 figures, final version to appear in Forum Mathematicum