Whitney towers and gropes in 4–manifolds

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-05-03768-2zbMath1117.57021arXivmath/0310303OpenAlexW1556742842MaRDI QIDQ5473441

Rob Schneiderman

Publication date: 21 June 2006

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0310303

zbMATH Keywords

4-manifoldWhitney towerknot concordancegropeunitrivalent tree

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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