The Kirby-calculus reformulation of the smooth four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture

Let L=L1L2L=L_1\cup L_2 be a link in S3S^3, with L1L_1 a dotted pp-component unlink and L2L_2 a framed link of p+qp+q components. Suppose that L2L_2 normally generates π1(S3L1)\pi_1(S^3-L_1), and that surgery on LL, with dotted components 0-framed, is diffeomorphic to SqS_q. Kirby-calculus reformulation of SPC4. (a) There is a sequence of moves (1), (2), and (3) transforming LL to the empty diagram. (b) If all framings on L2L_2 are even, the sequence can be chosen with n=0n=0 in every move (1). This is a link-diagram formulation of SPC4, expressing the absence of exotic smooth homotopy 4-spheres through Kirby moves.

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Michael Freedman, Robert Gompf, Scott Morrison and Kevin Walker, “Man and machine thinking about the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture”, arXiv:0906.5177 (2009).

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