New curiosities in the menagerie of corks
Geometric Topology
2020-08-28 v2
Abstract
A cork is a smooth, contractible, oriented, compact 4-manifold together with a self-diffeomorphism of the boundary 3-manifold that cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of ; the cork is said to be strong if cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of any smooth integer homology ball bounded by . 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 can be taken to be orientation-reversing.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
7 pages, 4 figures, comments welcome