Whitney’s trick for three 2-dimensional homology classes of 4-manifolds

Yamasaki, Masayuki

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0532167-8

Whitney’s trick for three $2$-dimensional homology classes of $4$-manifolds
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by Masayuki Yamasaki

Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 75 (1979), 365-371

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0532167-8

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Abstract:

In his recent paper, Y. Matsumoto has defined a triple product of 2-homology classes of simply-connected oriented 4-manifolds, when the intersection numbers are zero. In the present paper, the author establishes that three 2-homology classes can be homotopically separated if the intersection numbers and the triple product vanish.

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