More Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls
Geometric Topology
2020-12-29 v3
Abstract
We call an integral homology sphere bounds a rational homology ball if it is obstructed from bounding an integral homology ball. After Fintushel and Stern's well-known example , Akbulut and Larson recently provided the first infinite families of Brieskorn spheres non-trivially bounding rational homology balls: and for odd~. Using their technique, we present new such families: and for even . Also manipulating their main argument, we simply recover some classical results of Akbulut and Kirby, Fickle, Casson and Harer, and Stern about Brieskorn spheres bounding integral homology balls.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.04654,
title = {More Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls},
author = {Oguz Savk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04654},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
11 pages, 10 figures; minor corrections and clarifications