Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds (Q813185)
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Surgery and involutions on 4-manifolds (English)
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30 January 2006
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The 4 dimensional surgery theorem is known to be equivalent to the existence of a family of canonical 4-manifolds with free fundamental group. This paper shows that by passing to a double cover these canonical problems can be solved. This reformulates the surgery conjecture in terms of existence of free involutions on a class of 4-manifolds.
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4-manifolds
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surgery
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involutions
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