Traces of links and simply connected 4‐manifolds

DOI10.1112/BLMS.12729zbMATH Open1529.57016OpenAlexW3193818050MaRDI QIDQ6135057FDOQ6135057

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Publication date: 23 August 2023

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

Abstract: We study the set $widehat{mathcalS}_M$ of framed smoothly slice links which lie on the boundary of the complement of a 1-handlebody in a closed, simply connected, smooth 4-manifold $M$. We show that $widehat{mathcalS}_M$ is well-defined and describe how it relates to exotic phenomena in dimension four. In particular, in the case when $X$ is smooth, with a handle decompositions with no 1-handles and homeomorphic to but not smoothly embeddable in $D^4$, our results tell us that $X$ is exotic if and only if there is a link $Lhookrightarrow{S}^3$ which is smoothly slice in $X$, but not in $D^4$. Furthermore, we extend the notion of high genus 2-handle attachment, introduced by Hayden and Piccirillo, to prove that exotic 4-disks that are smoothly embeddable in $D^4$, and therefore possible counterexamples to the smooth 4-dimensional Sch"onflies conjecture, cannot be distinguished from $D^4$ only by comparing the slice genus functions of links.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07621

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zbMATH Keywords

knotssmooth 4-manifoldslinkssmooth Poincaré conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Knot theory (57K10) General topology of 4-manifolds (57K40)

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