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More Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls

Geometric Topology 2020-12-29 v3

Abstract

We call an integral homology sphere non-trivially\textit{non-trivially} bounds a rational homology ball if it is obstructed from bounding an integral homology ball. After Fintushel and Stern's well-known example Σ(2,3,7)\Sigma(2,3,7), Akbulut and Larson recently provided the first infinite families of Brieskorn spheres non-trivially bounding rational homology balls: Σ(2,4n+1,12n+5)\Sigma(2,4n+1,12n+5) and Σ(3,3n+1,12n+5)\Sigma(3,3n+1,12n+5) for odd~nn. Using their technique, we present new such families: Σ(2,4n+3,12n+7)\Sigma(2,4n+3,12n+7) and Σ(3,3n+2,12n+7)\Sigma(3,3n+2,12n+7) for even nn. 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.

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@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

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