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New Homotopy 4-Spheres

Geometric Topology 2011-01-18 v1

Abstract

We use surgery along 2-tori embedded in a union of two copies of a product of punctured 2-tori to produce a new collection of homotopy 4-spheres (4-manifolds homotopy equivalent to S4S^4 and hence homeomorphic to S4S^4 but possibly not diffeomorphic to S4S^4). It is still unknown if these new examples are in fact exotic.

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@article{arxiv.1101.2981,
  title  = {New Homotopy 4-Spheres},
  author = {Daniel Nash},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2981},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures

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