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Smooth surfaces with non-simply-connected complements

Geometric Topology 2018-09-05 v1 Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We give two constructions of surfaces in simply-connected 4-manifolds with non simply-connected complements. One is an iteration of the twisted rim surgery introduced by the first author. We also construct, for any group G satisfying some simple conditions, a simply-connected symplectic manifold containing a symplectic surface whose complement has fundamental group G. In each case, we produce infinitely many smoothly inequivalent surfaces that are equivalent up to smooth s-cobordism and hence are topologically equivalent for good groups.

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@article{arxiv.0804.2265,
  title  = {Smooth surfaces with non-simply-connected complements},
  author = {Hee Jung Kim and Daniel Ruberman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.2265},
  year   = {2018}
}

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28 pages, 2 figures

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