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20102026
most citedA survey of the foundations of four-manifold theory in the topological category

56 citations · 277 across the 50 of their papers we have counts for

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61 papers

math.GT2026

Stably exotic fillings of 3-manifolds

Daniel Kasprowski, Patrick Orson, Mark Powell +1

We investigate which 3-manifolds bound 4-manifolds that are homeomorphic but not stably diffeomorphic, where stabilising means taking connected sum with copies of .…

math.GT2023★ 1 cited

Unknotting nonorientable surfaces

Anthony Conway, Patrick Orson, Mark Powell

Given a nonorientable, locally flatly embedded surface in the -sphere of nonorientable genus , Massey showed that the normal Euler number lies in $\lbrace -2h,-2h+4,\ldots,2h…

math.GT2022★ 2 cited

Infinite homotopy stable class for 4-manifolds with boundary

Anthony Conway, Diarmuid Crowley, Mark Powell

We show that for every odd prime , there exists an infinite family of topological 4-manifolds that are all stably homeomorphic to one another, all the m…

math.GT2022★ 1 cited

Strongly invertible knots, equivariant slice genera, and an equivariant algebraic concordance group

Allison N. Miller, Mark Powell

We use the Blanchfield form to obtain a lower bound on the equivariant slice genus of a strongly invertible knot. For our main application, let be a genus one strongly invertib…

math.GT2022★ 1 cited

Simple spines of homotopy 2-spheres are unique

Patrick Orson, Mark Powell

A locally flatly embedded -sphere in a compact -manifold is called a spine if the inclusion map is a homotopy equivalence. A spine is called simple if the complement of t…

math.GT2022★ 2 cited

Mapping class groups of simply connected 4-manifolds with boundary

Patrick Orson, Mark Powell

We compute the topological mapping class group of every compact, simply connected, topological 4-manifold. This was previously only known in the closed case. If the 4-manifold is s…