Problems in 4-dimensional topology

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Authors Frank Quinn

Publication date 16 August 2001

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifolds\(s\)-cobordismssurgery

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-02) Triangulating manifolds (57Q15) Surgery and handlebodies (57R65) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80)

Review text

Open questions in 4 dimensional topology are presented. Quoting from the introduction: ``Topics discussed are: in Section 1, embeddings of 2-disks and 2-spheres needed for surgery and \(s\)-cobordisms of 4-manifolds. Section 2 describes uniqueness questions for these, arising from the study of isotopies. Section 3 concerns handlebody structures on 4-manifolds. Section 4 concerns invariants. Finally, Section 5 poses a triangulation problem for certain low-dimensional stratified spaces. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0957.00062].

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