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On 2-dimensional homology classes of 4-manifolds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Selman Akbulut
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Extract

Let Kτ be a framed knot in S3 representing the 4-manifold which is obtained by attaching a 2-handle onto B4 along K with the framing τ (see (1)). Tristram (2) proved the following non-imbedding theorem for the generator of ).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1977

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