The pochette surgery conjecture for homotopy 4-spheres
The pochette surgery conjecture for homotopy 4-spheres
Let be an embedding of a pochette into , let denote its associated spun 2-knot, and let denote the result of pochette surgery with parameters and . The pochette surgery conjecture. If is homotopy equivalent to the 4-sphere , then is diffeomorphic to and is the Gluck surgery along . In particular, if is a twist-spun 2-knot or a 0-slice 2-knot, then is diffeomorphic to for every . The conjecture relates homotopy 4-spheres obtained by pochette surgery to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré problem and to Gluck surgery; the source provides no resolution of the general claim.
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Tatsumasa Suzuki, “Constructions of homotopy 4-spheres by pochette surgery”, arXiv:2205.05239 (2023).
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