The torus-surgery conjecture for simply connected smooth 4-manifolds
Let and be homeomorphic simply connected smooth -manifolds. A torus surgery is a surgery on an embedded torus with square .
Torus-surgery conjecture. and are related via a sequence of surgeries on tori of square .
This conjecture proposes that torus surgeries account for the differences between homeomorphic simply connected smooth -manifolds. The source does not provide a resolution, so its status remains open.
References
Primary source
Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, “Six Lectures on Four 4-Manifolds”, arXiv:math/0610700 (2007).
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