The Dehn twist on a sum of two K3 surfaces
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Kronheimer, PB
Mrowka, TS
Date Issued
2020
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Mathematical Research Letters
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International Press of Boston
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Original manuscript
Abstract
Ruberman gave the first examples of self-diffeomorphisms of fourmanifolds that are isotopic to the identity in the topological category but not smoothly so. We give another example of this phenomenon, using the Dehn twist along a 3-sphere in the connected sum of two K3 surfaces.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2020.V27.N6.A8