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arxiv: 1108.4869 · v1 · pith:JE43AUPCnew · submitted 2011-08-24 · 🧮 math.GT

Dehn surgeries and negative-definite four-manifolds

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Given a knot K in the three-sphere, we address the question: which Dehn surgeries on K bound negative-definite four-manifolds? We show that the answer depends on a number m(K), which is a smooth concordance invariant. We study the properties of this invariant, and compute it for torus knots.

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