3-Spheres in the 4-Sphere and Pseudo-Isotopies of S¹× S³

2022/12/05 by David Gabai, Gabai, David
Mathematics · #57M99 (Primary) 57R52 #57N50 (Secondary) #57R50 #Advanced Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Geometric Topology (math.GT) #Geometric and Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.02004

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Abstract

We offer an approach to the smooth 4-dimensional Schoenflies conjecture via pseudo-isotopy theory.

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