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Spherical 3-manifolds bounding rational homology balls

Geometric Topology 2019-10-17 v3

Abstract

We give a complete classification of the spherical 3-manifolds that bound smooth rational homology 4-balls. Furthermore, we determine the order of spherical 3-manifolds in the rational homology cobordism group of rational homology 3-spheres. To this end, we use constraints for 3-manifolds to bound rational homology balls induced from Donaldson's diagonalization theorem and Heegaard Floer correction terms.

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@article{arxiv.1803.08749,
  title  = {Spherical 3-manifolds bounding rational homology balls},
  author = {Dong Heon Choe and Kyungbae Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.08749},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

29 pages, 8 figures; revised and clarified the arguments in Section 6.3, to appear in Michigan Math. Journal