New curiosities in the menagerie of corks
A cork is a smooth, contractible, oriented, compact 4-manifold $W$ together with a self-diffeomorphism $f$ of the boundary 3-manifold that cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of $W$; the cork is said to be strong if $f$ cannot extend to a self-diffeomorphism of any smooth integer homology ball bo...
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Zusammenfassung: | A cork is a smooth, contractible, oriented, compact 4-manifold $W$ together
with a self-diffeomorphism $f$ of the boundary 3-manifold that cannot extend to
a self-diffeomorphism of $W$; the cork is said to be strong if $f$ cannot
extend to a self-diffeomorphism of any smooth integer homology ball bounded by
$\partial W$. Surprising recent work of Dai, Hedden, and Mallick showed that
most of the well-known corks in the literature are strong. We construct the
first non-strong corks, which also give rise to new examples of absolutely
exotic Mazur manifolds. Additionally we give the first examples of corks where
the diffeomorphism of $\partial W$ can be taken to be orientation-reversing. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.2005.08928 |