Knotting corks

DOI10.1112/jtopol/jtp025zbMath1189.57024arXiv0812.5098MaRDI QIDQ3402141

Selman Akbulut, Kouichi Yasui

Publication date: 2 February 2010

Published in: Journal of Topology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.5098

zbMATH Keywords

Stein manifold; 4-manifold; Seiberg-Witten invariant; involution; knot surgery; rational blowdown; cork; Kirby calculus; plug; exotic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

57R65: Surgery and handlebodies

57R55: Differentiable structures in differential topology

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