A universal smoothing of four-space

DOI10.4310/JDG/1214440258zbMath0586.57007OpenAlexW2136327844WikidataQ107485819 ScholiaQ107485819MaRDI QIDQ1071350

Laurence R. Taylor, Michael Hartley Freedman

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Journal of Differential Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.4310/jdg/1214440258

zbMATH Keywords

h-cobordism between two four-manifoldssmoothing of four spacesmoothing of half spacesmoothly knotted 2-spheres in universal \(R^ 4\)topologically unknotted

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differentiable structures in differential topology (57R55) Embeddings in differential topology (57R40) (h)- and (s)-cobordism (57R80) Smoothing in differential topology (57R10)

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