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Homotopy Self-Equivalences of 4-manifolds with Free Fundamental Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Mehmetcik Pamuk
Mehmetcik Pamuk*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
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[email protected]
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Abstract

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We calculate the group of homotopy classes of homotopy self-equivalences of 4-manifolds with free fundamental group and obtain a classification of such 4-manifolds up to s-cobordism.

Keywords

57N1355P1057R80
Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 62 , Issue 6 , 14 December 2010 , pp. 1387 - 1403
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 2010

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