Free Products and 4-Dimensional Connected Sums

DOI10.1112/BLMS/27.4.387MaRDI QIDQ4863938zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan A. Hillman

Publication date 10 April 1996

Published in Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1112/blms/27.4.387

zbMATH Keywords

\(s\)-cobordismclosed 4-manifoldconnected sumEuler characteristicfundamental grouplinks in \(S^ 4\)nontrivial free productstably homeomorphicweak splitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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