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Mazur-type manifolds with $L$-space boundaries

Geometric Topology 2018-07-25 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

In this note, we prove that if the boundary of a Mazur-type 44-manifold is an irreducible Heegaard Floer homology LL-space, then the manifold must be the 44-ball, and the boundary must be the 33-sphere. We use this to give a new proof of Gabai's Property R.

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@article{arxiv.1807.08880,
  title  = {Mazur-type manifolds with $L$-space boundaries},
  author = {James Conway and Bülent Tosun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.08880},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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