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Surfaces in 4-Manifolds
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
In this paper we introduce a technique, called rim surgery, which can change a smooth embedding of an orientable surface of positive genus and nonnegative self-intersection in a sm…
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Knots, Links, and 4-Manifolds
Ronald Fintushel, Ronald J. Stern
In this paper we investigate the relationship between isotopy classes of knots and links in S^3 and the diffeomorphism types of homeomorphic smooth 4-manifolds. As a corollary of t…