The torus-surgery conjecture for simply connected smooth 4-manifolds

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Let XX and YY be homeomorphic simply connected smooth 44-manifolds. A torus surgery is a surgery on an embedded torus with square 00.

Torus-surgery conjecture. XX and YY are related via a sequence of surgeries on tori of square 00.

This conjecture proposes that torus surgeries account for the differences between homeomorphic simply connected smooth 44-manifolds. The source does not provide a resolution, so its status remains open.

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Primary source

Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern, “Six Lectures on Four 4-Manifolds”, arXiv:math/0610700 (2007).

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