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arxiv: math/9812086 · v1 · pith:W6VV5MMAnew · submitted 1998-12-15 · 🧮 math.GT

Kirby calculus in manifolds with boundary

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Suppose there are two framed links in a compact, connected 3-manifold (possibly with boundary, or non-orientable) such that the associated 3-manifolds obtained by surgery are homeomorphic (relative to their common boundary, if there is one.) How are the links related? Kirby's theorem gives the answer when the manifold is S^3, and Fenn and Rourke extended it to the case of any closed orientable 3-manifold, or twisted S^1 cross S^2. The purpose of this note is to give the answer in the general case, using only minor modifications of Kirby's original proof.

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