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arxiv: 1704.07739 · v1 · pith:E6FGP4WZnew · submitted 2017-04-25 · 🧮 math.GT

Brieskorn spheres bounding rational balls

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Fintushel and Stern showed that the Brieskorn sphere $\Sigma(2,3,7)$ bounds a rational homology ball, while its non-trivial Rokhlin invariant obstructs it from bounding an integral homology ball. It is known that their argument can be modified to show that the figure-eight knot is rationally slice, and we use this fact to provide the first additional examples of Brieskorn spheres that bound rational homology balls but not integral homology balls: the families $\Sigma(2,4n+1,12n+5)$ and $\Sigma(3,3n+1,12n+5)$ for $n$ odd. We also provide handlebody diagrams for a rational homology ball containing a rationally slice disk for the figure-eight knot, as well as for a rational homology ball bounded by $\Sigma(2,3,7)$. These handle diagrams necessarily contain 3-handles.

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