{ "id": "1101.2981", "version": "v1", "published": "2011-01-15T12:43:36.000Z", "updated": "2011-01-15T12:43:36.000Z", "title": "New Homotopy 4-Spheres", "authors": [ "Daniel Nash" ], "comment": "11 pages, 5 figures", "categories": [ "math.GT" ], "abstract": "We use surgery along 2-tori embedded in a union of two copies of a product of punctured 2-tori to produce a new collection of homotopy 4-spheres (4-manifolds homotopy equivalent to $S^4$ and hence homeomorphic to $S^4$ but possibly not diffeomorphic to $S^4$). It is still unknown if these new examples are in fact exotic.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2011-01-15T12:43:36.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "homotopy equivalent", "fact exotic", "collection", "homeomorphic" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 11, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2011arXiv1101.2981N" } } }