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Embedding lens spaces in definite 4-manifolds

Geometric Topology 2019-03-05 v1

Abstract

Every lens space has a locally flat embedding in a connected sum of 8 copies of the complex projective plane and a smooth embedding in n copies of the complex projective plane for some positive integer n. We show that there is no n such that every lens space smoothly embeds in n copies of the complex projective plane.

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@article{arxiv.1903.01260,
  title  = {Embedding lens spaces in definite 4-manifolds},
  author = {Paolo Aceto and JungHwan Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01260},
  year   = {2019}
}

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6 pages

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