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On Mazur's telescoping argument

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Speaker: 
David Gabai
Affiliation: 
Princeton University
Date: 
Fri, 21/10/2016 - 11:00 - 12:00
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall [2]
Parent event: 
Conference on 4-manifolds and knot concordance [3]

In 1958 Mazur gave a remarkable telescoping argument to show that a smooth 3-sphere in 4-space bounds a topological 4-ball.  We discuss some applications of his argument.

Source URL: https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/6903

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[1] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/taxonomy/term/39
[2] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/3444
[3] https://www.mpim-bonn.mpg.de/node/6656