Free Products and 4-Dimensional Connected Sums

DOI10.1112/BLMS/27.4.387zbMATH Open0834.57011OpenAlexW1977500161MaRDI QIDQ4863938FDOQ4863938

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

Euler characteristicfundamental groupconnected sum\(s\)-cobordismclosed 4-manifoldweak splittingnontrivial free productlinks in \(S^ 4\)stably homeomorphic

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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• Topology of four-manifolds with special homotopy groups
• On the 4-dissections of certain infinite products
• Homotopy invariance of 4-manifold decompositions: connected sums
• Connected sums of 4-manifolds

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