Decomposing a $4$-manifold
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- by Selman Akbulut
- Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3413-3419
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04897-2
- Published electronically: May 3, 1999
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Abstract:
A splitting of a manifold in Kirby’s problem list (no. 4.97) is given.References
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Bibliographic Information
- Selman Akbulut
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
- MR Author ID: 23925
- Email: akbulut@math.msu.edu
- Received by editor(s): January 15, 1998
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: January 29, 1998
- Published electronically: May 3, 1999
- Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-9626204.
- Communicated by: Ronald A. Fintushel
- © Copyright 1999 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 3413-3419
- MSC (1991): Primary 57R55; Secondary 58A03
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-99-04897-2
- MathSciNet review: 1610900