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New curiosities in the menagerie of corks

Geometric Topology 2020-08-28 v2

Abstract

A cork is a smooth, contractible, oriented, compact 4-manifold WW together with a self-diffeomorphism ff of the boundary 3-manifold that cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of WW; the cork is said to be strong if ff cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of any smooth integer homology ball bounded by W\partial W. Surprising recent work of Dai, Hedden, and Mallick showed that most of the well-known corks in the literature are strong. We construct the first non-strong corks, which also give rise to new examples of absolutely exotic Mazur manifolds. Additionally we give the first examples of corks where the diffeomorphism of W\partial W can be taken to be orientation-reversing.

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@article{arxiv.2005.08928,
  title  = {New curiosities in the menagerie of corks},
  author = {Kyle Hayden and Lisa Piccirillo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.08928},
  year   = {2020}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome