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Topologically knotted Lagrangians in simply connected four-manifolds

Author(s): Dave Auckly
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 133 (2005), 885-889.
MSC (2000): Primary 53D12, 53D35
Posted: August 4, 2004
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Abstract: Vidussi was the first to construct knotted Lagrangian tori in simply connected four-dimensional manifolds. Fintushel and Stern introduced a second way to detect such knotting. This note demonstrates that similar examples may be distinguished by the fundamental group of the exterior.


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Additional Information:

Dave Auckly
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-2602

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-04-07561-6
PII: S 0002-9939(04)07561-6
Keywords: Lagrangian submanifolds, fundamental group
Received by editor(s): June 25, 2003
Received by editor(s) in revised form: November 5, 2003
Posted: August 4, 2004
Additional Notes: This work was partially supported by National Science Foundation grant DMS-0204651.
Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
Copyright of article: Copyright 2004, American Mathematical Society


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