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Non-smoothable homeomorphisms of $4$-manifolds with boundary (2310.08666v3)
Published 12 Oct 2023 in math.GT and math.DG
Abstract: We construct the first examples of non-smoothable self-homeomorphisms of smooth $4$-manifolds with boundary that fix the boundary and act trivially on homology. As a corollary, we construct self-diffeomorphisms of $4$-manifolds with boundary that fix the boundary and act trivially on homology but cannot be isotoped to any self-diffeomorphism supported in a collar of the boundary and, in particular, are not isotopic to any generalised Dehn twist.
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