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Local surgery formulas for quantum invariants and the Arf invariant
Robion Kirby, Paul Melvin
A formula for the Arf invariant of a link is given in terms of the singularities of an immersed surface bounded by the link. This is applied to study the computational complexity o…
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Constructing symplectic forms on 4-manifolds which vanish on circles
David T. Gay, Robion Kirby
Given a smooth, closed, oriented 4-manifold X and alpha in H_2(X,Z) such that alpha.alpha > 0, a closed 2-form w is constructed, Poincare dual to alpha, which is symplectic on the…