A Connected Sum of Knots and Fintushel-Stern Knot Surgery on 4-manifolds

Authors : Manabu Akaho

Pages : 87-93

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Publication Date : 9999-12-31

Article Type : Makaleler

Abstract :We give some new examples of smooth 4-manifolds which are diffeomorphic although they are obtained by Fintushel-Stern knot surgeries on a smooth 4-manifold with different knots; the first such examples are given by Akbulut [1]. In the proof we essentially use the monodromy of a cusp.
Keywords : Turk. J. Math., 30, (2006), 87-93. Full text: pdf Other articles published in the same issue: Turk. J. Math., vol.30, iss.1.