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Doubles of Gluck twists: a five dimensional approach

Geometric Topology 2023-07-14 v1

Abstract

Using a 5-dimensional perspective, we balance algebraic and geometric handle cancellation to show that doubles of Gluck twists of certain 2-spheres with two minima are standard. This includes all 2-spheres which are unions of ribbon discs, one of which has undisking number one. As an application, we produce new examples of Schoenflies balls not known to be standard.

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@article{arxiv.2307.06388,
  title  = {Doubles of Gluck twists: a five dimensional approach},
  author = {David Gabai and Patrick Naylor and Hannah Schwartz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.06388},
  year   = {2023}
}

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24 pages, 21 figures. Comments welcome!

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