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Pochette surgery of 4-sphere

Geometric Topology 2023-07-26 v3

Abstract

Iwase and Matsumoto defined `pochette surgery' as a cut-and-paste on 4-manifolds along a 4-manifold homotopy equivalent to S2S1S^2\vee S^1. The first author in [10] studied infinitely many homotopy 4-spheres obtained by pochette surgery. In this paper we compute the homology of pochette surgery of any homology 4-sphere by using `linking number' of a pochette embedding. We prove that pochette surgery with the trivial cord does not change the diffeomorphism type or gives a Gluck surgery. We also show that there exist pochette surgeries on the 4-sphere with a non-trivial core sphere and a non-trivial cord such that the surgeries give the 4-sphere.

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@article{arxiv.2205.06034,
  title  = {Pochette surgery of 4-sphere},
  author = {Tatsumasa Suzuki and Motoo Tange},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06034},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, 15 figures