Scharlemann's manifold is standard

DOI10.2307/120972zbMATH Open0931.57016arXivmath/9712255OpenAlexW2152028520MaRDI QIDQ1293366FDOQ1293366

Authors: Selman Akbulut 

Publication date: 28 February 2000

Published in: Annals of Mathematics. Second Series (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In his 1974 thesis, Martin Scharlemann constructed a fake homotopy equivalence from a closed smooth manifold f:Q -> S^3 x S^1 # S^2 x S^2 and asked whether the manifold Q itself is diffeomorphic to S^3 x S^1 # S^2 x S^2. Here we answer this question affirmatively.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9712255

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zbMATH Keywords

smooth 4-manifoldshomology spheresKirby calculusfake homotopy equivalences

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