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Four-Manifold Theory

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Cameron Gordon and Robion Kirby, Editors

Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year: 1984; Volume 35
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5033-6 (print); 978-0-8218-7620-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/035
MathSciNet review: 780574

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Articles

• I. R. Aitchison and J. H. Rubinstein – Fibered knots and involutions on homotopy spheres [MR 780575]
• Selman Akbulut – A fake $4$-manifold [MR 780576]
• Fredric D. Ancel – Approximating cell-like maps of $S^4$ by homeomorphisms [MR 780577]
• Sylvain E. Cappell and Julius L. Shaneson – Linking numbers in branched covers [MR 780578]
• Andrew Casson and Michael Freedman – Atomic surgery problems [MR 780579]
• S. K. Donaldson – Smooth $4$-manifolds with definite intersection form [MR 780580]
• Robert D. Edwards – The solution of the $4$-dimensional annulus conjecture (after Frank Quinn) [MR 780581]
• Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern – A $\mu$-invariant one homology $3$-sphere that bounds an orientable rational ball [MR 780582]
• Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern – Another construction of an exotic $S^1 \stackrel {\times }{\sim } S^3\# S^2\times S^2$ [MR 780583]
• Robert E. Gompf and Sukhjit Singh – On Freedman reimbedding theorems [MR 780584]
• John Harer – The homology of the mapping class group and its connection to surface bundles over surfaces [MR 780585]
• Akio Kawauchi – Rochlin invariant and $\alpha$-invariant [MR 780586]
• R. A. Litherland – Cobordism of satellite knots [MR 780587]
• Richard Mandelbaum – Complex structures on $4$-manifolds [MR 780588]
• Yukio Matsumoto – Good torus fibrations [MR 780589]
• Paul Melvin – $4$-dimensional oriented bordism [MR 780590]
• Richard T. Miller – A new proof of the homotopy torus and annulus theorem [MR 780591]
• Steven P. Plotnick – Fibered knots in $S^4$—twisting, spinning, rolling, surgery, and branching [MR 780592]
• Frank Quinn – The embedding theorem for towers [MR 780593]
• Frank Quinn – Smooth structures on $4$-manifolds [MR 780594]
• Daniel Ruberman – Concordance of links in $S^4$ [MR 780595]
• Lee Rudolph – Constructions of quasipositive knots and links. II [MR 780596]
• Clifford Henry Taubes – An introduction to self-dual connections [MR 780597]
• Edited by Rob Kirby – $4$-manifold problems [MR 780598]