A surgery sequence in dimension four; the relations with knot concordance

DOI10.1007/BF01394055zbMath0504.57016MaRDI QIDQ1836199

Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/142931

zbMATH Keywords

boundary links; 3-fold untwisted double of a knot; deleted structure; homological surgery problem; homotopy 1-skeleta; hyperbolic pairs of 2-spheres in 4-manifolds; knot with Alexander polynomial 1; non-simply-connected surgery; problem of slicing a knot; proper slice; recognizing ends; set of smooth structures on a 4-dimensional Poincare pair; surgery exact sequence for 4-manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R65: Surgery and handlebodies

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