Smooth embeddings of 2-spheres in 4-manifolds

zbMath0764.57020MaRDI QIDQ1201339

Terry Lawson

Publication date: 17 January 1993

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Donaldson theoryrepresenting 2-dimensional homology classes of simply connected 4-manifolds by embedded 2-spheresWhitney trick

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