Variations on Fintushel-Stern Knot Surgery on 4-manifolds

Abstract

We discuss some consequences Fintushel-Stern `knot surgery' operation on 4-manifolds coming from its handlebody description. We give some generalizations of this operation and give a counterexample to their conjecture.

12 pages, 18 figures

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